How Much Each Company Will Charge to Take You to Space
Are the stars really the next frontier of travel? These visionaries are working to make it so.
Courtesy of World View Enterprises
By Laura Brounstein and John Wenz
The first issue of Airbnbmag, which hits newsstands today, will help you find a place to stay off-planet, too. Here are the companies competing to take us to the heavens, and how much we'll have to pay (and how long we'll have to wait) for the ride of a lifetime.
Worldview Express: $75,000
Float 100,000 feet to the edge of the atmosphere via a helium-balloon-powered space capsule. There's no training required for the four- to six-hour World View Voyager trip.
XCor Future Astronaut Program: $150,000
You'll experience six minutes of weightlessness and get your astronaut wings after summiting 62 miles above the Earth— aka outer space—in a rocket-engine-powered XCor Lynx Mark II two-seater.
Virgin Galactic: $250,000
After a 47,000-foot climb powered by the WhiteKnightTwo "mothership," the SpaceShipTwo will detach and launch past the atmosphere to a height of 68 miles and then glide back to Earth.
Space Adventures: $50 million
Eight space tourists, with great resources and bravery, have taken the Virginia-based company's two-day flight to spend a week and a half on the International Space Station, 249 miles above the Earth.
SpaceX: Undisclosed
Two individuals have recently signed up to take a weeklong journey that will "skim the surface of the moon." They will be the first people to go to deep space in 45 years.
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