Space fans and average citizens who have dreamed of looking at earth from beyond the atmosphere are now welcome at the international space station. The trip will cost about $35,000 a day per visitor.
This March 25, 2009 photo provided by NASA shows the International Space Station seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery during separation. NASA announced it will open the International Space Station to private astronauts. Photo: Associated Press By Andy Pasztor Updated June 7, 2019 4:13 p.m. ET The U.S. government has formally laid out the welcome mat for space tourists, as part of a broader effort to jump-start commercial initiatives on the international space station.
The concept of offering more such trips has been discussed for years, with various companies laying out potential arrangements, safety issues and other logistics with NASA officials and representatives of some of the other countries that are partners on the space station. The overall cost of the anticipated tourists flights isn’t clear, since it currently costs NASA more than $40 million per astronaut to blast crews to the station using Russian hardware. In previous years, a tiny group of well-heeled adventurers have paid for Russian rockets and capsules to carry them to the space station. But Moscow hasn’t offered such rides to nonastronauts recently.
With Friday’s announcement, however, NASA trained a spotlight on an element of that plan bound to resonate with many space fans and average citizens who have dreamed of looking at earth from beyond the atmosphere.
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