Following hot on the heels of Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos’ recent galactic trips, Elon Musk’s Space X has just completed a historic mission – sending 4 ordinary people to space.
The four crew members were the first civilians to fly a completely private orbital space mission, unaccompanied by professional astronauts.
They consisted of a cancer survivor, an engineer, a physician and a geology professor! Billionaire Jared Isaacman paid an undisclosed sum for the trip which allowed the team to orbit for three days around Earth.
The team called Inspiration 4 landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean near to Florida on September 18th and raised $200 million for St Jude’s Cancer Research Facility. Musk was believed to have donated $50m to the fundraising efforts.
This mission was considered paramount to future space travel for citizens, with Space X, Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin paving the way for this so called “space tourism.”
It doesn’t come cheap though. Virgin Galactic are currently selling commercial flights to space at $450,000 while Blue Origin are expecting to sell tickets for between $200,000 and $300,000. Space travel fans – best start saving or playing the Lottery!
