SpaceX plans to send tourists into orbit
Elon Musk’s SpaceX venture wants to send its first space tourists into orbit within two years.
SpaceX has partnered with interstellar tourism firm Space Adventures to send private citizens on the SpaceX Crew Dragon.
The maiden space tourism flight is expected to blast off between late 2021 and mid-2022 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
It will last for up to five days.
The Crew Dragon four-person capsule flight would be a ‘free flyer mission’ which means it won’t dock with the International Space Station.
Space Adventures already has a track record in space tourism.
From 2001 to 2009 it sent some customers on eight private flights to the International Space Station using Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
There seems to be plenty of interest as Space Adventures’ website went down for a short time just after tweeting news of the partnership.
Space Adventures chairman Eric Anderson. Promises tourists will ‘fly further from Earth than anyone in the last 50 years’ but will first have to undertake several weeks of pre-flight training.
It hasn’t disclosed the cost of flights yet.
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