How much does it cost to go to space?

Broadly speaking, people often say that there are at least four ways of space tourism: parabolic flight of aircraft, high-altitude flight close to space, suborbital flight and orbital flight.

▲ $5,000 to experience parabolic flight

Parabolic flight is not real space tourism, it can only make tourists experience weightlessness in space for about half a minute, and astronauts usually experience weightlessness in this way during training. If tourists fly parabolically on planes such as "Il -76" used by Russian astronauts for training, the cost will be about $5,000.

▲ 1 10,000 dollars to experience high-altitude flight.

Flying into space at high altitude and close range is not a real space tourism, but it can let visitors experience the feeling of being at a very high altitude. When tourists fly to the sky 18 km above the ground, they can see the terrain curve of the earth under their feet and the dark sky overhead, and experience endless emptiness. At present, the planes planned for this tour include Russian MiG -25 and MiG -3 1 high-performance fighters. These planes can fly above 24 kilometers, and the ticket price for traveling by them is about $65,438+0,000.

▲65438+ million dollars to experience suborbital flight.

Suborbital flight will produce a state of weightlessness for several minutes. America's private manned spacecraft "Spaceship I" and Russia's planned tourist spacecraft "C-XXI" are typical examples of this kind of flight. They can produce weightlessness for several minutes during the flameout and reentry of rocket engines. The price of this kind of flight is about $6,543,800 per person.

▲ 20 million US dollars to experience orbital flight

American Olson experienced real space tourism-orbital flight. At present, the tool to realize orbital tourism is mainly the International Space Station, and the "buses" for tourists to reach the space station are mainly the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and the American space shuttle. After the space shuttle Columbia crashed, most space tourism agencies turned their attention to Soyuz series spacecraft. Each ticket to travel with them is about $20 million.