For $50 Million, Book Your Vacation in Space

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Aspiring astronauts be forewarned: It’s mostly the super wealthy who’d be able to afford a trip into space, at least at first.

An unprecedented boom in the commercialization of space is lifting the hopes of an industry that has been trying to take off for years: space tourism.

Within the next few years, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a number of other lesser-known adventurers are hoping to start sending tourists into space.

 

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So it's more than $100?

All money for space projects should be redirected to research for climate change. Let’s put our planet first.

Death is the great equalizer

Of course. Going off-world will be a thing for the wealthy leaving everyone else Earthbound. PKD was right.

REALLY, so it would appear that only the super wealthy could afford to do ridiculously expensive things that are ridiculously unnecessary. Well that just sounds ridiculous doesn’t it?

How many baby needs new shoes will it cost?

just like flying then, it was only for the wealthy at first then decades later became affordable enough that anyone(almost) can do it.

That’s okay, we’re spaced out enough already with fake manufactured news reporting.

Outrageous. My staff is drawing up the Affordable Astronauts Act of 2019 as we speak.

That’s ok, while there’re up there we’ll go to their houses and mess with their stuff.

until space travel is declared a human right and then.....

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