SpaceX plans to send a small number of tourists into space - Business Insider

The four non-crew members will receive several weeks of training prior to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Engadget reports.

The Dragon spacecraft hasn't completed a flight with humans aboard, but it's scheduled to carry a crew in a mission this spring following the spacecraft's successful trip to the International Space Station last year. Flight tests for the upcoming tourism trip appear to have fixed problems that resulted in an explosion last April and demonstrated that the passenger capsule can release and land in the Atlantic during launch in case of malfunction.

But space tourism isn't the only frontier SpaceX is pioneering. The Falcon 9 launch service caters to customers who want to send small satellites into space but can't afford a full rocket, which can cost more than $60 million, according to

Hard no!

How much to come back ?

That's pretty awesome of SpaceX :)

Good Idea.

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