Next Year, SpaceX Is Ready To Take Tourists Into Space

JAKARTA - The space company SpaceX opens opportunities for three lucky tourists who want to fly into space. Later they will enjoy space travel, for 10 days and stay at the International Space Station (ISS).

This travel package is a service offered by Axiom Space, a startup based in Houston, Texas. Later, these tourists will fly using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket in 2021.

To take part in this space trip, each person is charged around 55 million United States (US) dollars or around Rp.787 billion at the current exchange rate.

Quoting from the page of The Verge, a ticket to this space trip has been ordered by someone. CEO Axiom, Michael T Suffredini said, if this flight will be the first commercial trip to take tourists into space.

"It will be this historic flight and represent a milestone on the way to universal and routine access to space,"

Axiom CEO, Michael T. Suffredini

For information, Axiom is the second space tourism company that has collaborated with the company owned by Elon Musk. Dubbed Space Adventures, they said they would launch citizens to orbit in the Crew Dragon capsule as well.

Dragon's solar arrays have deployed, and it's on its way to the International Space Station. Capture by @space_station crew set for early Monday pic.twitter.com/wyUDOd158z

- SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 7, 2020

The orbital flight will last up to five days, but does not anchor with the ISS. Axiom also said there could be more trips to the ISS after this project.

"This historical flight will represent a milestone on the way to universal and routine access to space. This will be the first of many missions to the ISS fully manned and managed by Axiom Space, the first for a commercial entity. Procurement of transportation marks a significant advance towards the goal. that, and we are delighted to be working with SpaceX on this endeavor, "said Suffredini.