If you are going to travel, go somewhere exotic! Don't fart around with another trip to increasingly sordid Paris.
A company called Space Adventures (founded in part by Peter Diamandis, the X-Prize guy) announced yesterday that they have signed an agreement with SpaceX to fly four paying customers at a time to and from Earth-orbit in Crew Dragons, starting late 2021. I don't believe that these flights will include a visit to the Space Station.
https://twitter.com/SpaceAdventures/stat...5115600896
https://spaceadventures.com/space-advent...pacecraft/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...e=emb_logo
https://spacenews.com/space-adventures-t...n-mission/
I believe that the Dragon will be flying in fully autonomous mode, like DM-1 when it delivered Ripley and Little Earth to the Space Station. (Neither of those two individuals was manually flying it.) SpaceX is rather confident about the mission software, since the Cargo Dragons have long been using a version of it without mishap.
Space Adventures is a real company with a track record. They are the ones who arranged private individuals to fly on Soyuz's to the Space Station. There have been seven of those tourists, on eight flights (one went twice).
I have no idea what it will cost, but it won't be cheap.
A company called Space Adventures (founded in part by Peter Diamandis, the X-Prize guy) announced yesterday that they have signed an agreement with SpaceX to fly four paying customers at a time to and from Earth-orbit in Crew Dragons, starting late 2021. I don't believe that these flights will include a visit to the Space Station.
https://twitter.com/SpaceAdventures/stat...5115600896
https://spaceadventures.com/space-advent...pacecraft/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...e=emb_logo
https://spacenews.com/space-adventures-t...n-mission/
I believe that the Dragon will be flying in fully autonomous mode, like DM-1 when it delivered Ripley and Little Earth to the Space Station. (Neither of those two individuals was manually flying it.) SpaceX is rather confident about the mission software, since the Cargo Dragons have long been using a version of it without mishap.
Space Adventures is a real company with a track record. They are the ones who arranged private individuals to fly on Soyuz's to the Space Station. There have been seven of those tourists, on eight flights (one went twice).
I have no idea what it will cost, but it won't be cheap.