Some time ago, SpaceX bombed a Falcon 9 rocket and successfully completed the rocket’s escape system test , which also This means that SpaceX’s last obstacle to manned space, and ordinary people’s space travel plans can be put on the agenda.
▲ Falcon rocket detonated
According to The Verge, on Tuesday, SpaceX Announced , plans to send up to 4 ordinary passengers into space for a trip around the earth at the end of 2021 or early 2022, and the flight altitude will reach two times the International Space Station ’s 400 km orbital altitude To triple.
It is reported that SpaceX’s space travel service will cooperate with Space Adventures , which is the first company in the world to engage in The private company of space tourism services is also the only company that has successfully sent private travelers to space. The company has helped 7 private customers to and from the International Space Station on Russian Soyuz rockets and spacecraft.
▲ Life on the International Space Station. Image from NASA
As for the price of this space trip, the space exploration company did not disclose. However, you can refer to another space travel service to the International Space Station launched by SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace last year. The price per passenger is $ 52 million .
Although no manned space flight has been carried out yet, SpaceX has long put commercial space travel on the agenda. SpaceX announced in 2017 announced < / a> have received payment from two customers and asked them to reach the Big Falcon Rocket for orbiting the moon in 2018, but failed to make it.
But in 2018, SpaceX announced the the first lunar traveler , which is the former founder of the Japanese fashion e-commerce group Start Today Co. Yusaku Maezawa. In 2023, Yuzawa Maezawa will fly to the moon on SpaceX’s next-generation Large Falcon Rocket (BFR) for a week-long space flight.
