The space agency will charge $35,000 per night, but the cost of getting there, on a private spacecraft, will be considerably higher. NASA will…
The space agency will charge $35,000 per night, but the cost of getting there, on a private spacecraft, will be considerably higher.
NASA will soon be allowing space tourists the chance to spend one or more night on-board the International Space Station, BBC News reports. At $35,000 per night, that’s something of a bargain. Unfortunately for space tourists, though, the costs of getting to the satellite will far exceed, by many times over, the cost of actually staying there.
For years, NASA has banned businesses and private individuals from using the International Space Station (ISS) for tourism, privately-funded research, and other, non-government-sponsored business. However, with the Space Station set to be defunded within the next few years, and with NASA focusing its efforts on returning to the Moon, with a view towards eventually putting manned spacecraft on Mars, the ISS risks becoming another piece of space junk orbiting the plant.
