MINNEAPOLIS – BOEING and a space tourism company announced a deal on Wednesday to sell tickets on rocket rides to the International Space Station. Now Boeing just has to build a spaceship.
Space Adventures Ltd. has already been selling seats aboard the Russian-built Soyuz spaceship. Its last passenger was Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte, who paid US$35 million (S$46.8 million) for a 10-day trip.
Now, Boeing says Space Adventures will sell seats on its planned CST-100, which would carry seven people. NASA has been encouraging aerospace companies like Boeing to develop spaceships that can carry government-sponsored astronauts as well as paying tourists to the space station. The idea is to spread around the cost of NASA missions while also boosting privately funded space efforts.
Big questions remain. Congressional funding isn’t assured. And Boeing and Space Adventures will have competition from a California company called SpaceX, which is also seeking NASA work for space station missions.
So far, seven customers have ridden on eight flights through Spacecraft Adventures.
The trips will be for millionaires, at least for now. Boeing and Space Adventures executives didn’t have pricing details, but said on a conference call that prices would be ‘competitive’ with the cost for a flight on the Soyuz craft.
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