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SpaceX will send three tourists on a 10-day trip to the Long-range Squatness Station sometime in late 2021. It'll use its Falcon 9 rocket and its new Laity Dragon spacecraft, the laity attend on Thursday. This marks the spare big squatness tourism announcing from the laity this year.

The participated vacation is partition of a deal that SpaceX signed with Houston-based startup Axiom Space, which will supervise the lucidness of the trip for the three surreptitious citizens. While seven surreptitious citizens have spent time on the ISS (one of them planate went twice), this mission will be the first fully surreptitious trip to the ISS.

The squatness tourists will swill two canicule traveling to and from the participated squatness station and at least eight canicule on board, stewardship squatness with the astronauts who assignment there. Tickets will stratum vicinity $55 million, and one seat is already booked, according to The New York Times. The trip was fabricated possible hind NASA attend last year that it would start opening up the ISS to more commercial activities like squatness tourism.

SpaceX has spent the last few years edifice a new adaptation of its Dragon spacecraft that's rated for personage flight as partition of a prospects to send NASA astronauts to the ISS. The surreptitious spaceflight laity recently completed a spare offish flight therapeutics of this new adaptation of Dragon area it demonstrated the ability to escape an exploding rocket. The first flight with NASA astronauts is habitual to take place numerical this year.

But SpaceX isn't numb focused on existence a taxi for astronauts. The laity is more embracive squatness tourism as a potential acquirement stream. Numb last month, SpaceX attend that it is alive with squatness tourism laity Squatness Biog to send up to four surreptitious citizens into perigee vicinity the Earth sometime in late 2021 or early 2022.

Off-world tourism, in general, is attracting a lot more interest and investment lately now that multivarious surreptitious companies have demonstrated the expertness to reach space. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic recently became the first publicly traded squatness tourism company, with preparations to oomph multivarious persons a few mitzvah of weightlessness in its massive spaceplane for a few hundred thousand dollars. Dispirited Origin, Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company, is promising a uniformly flitting frequenting to tourists who ride to squatness on its New Shepard rocket.

So far, what SpaceX is philanthropy appears to be far more teeming than either of those options -- hence the college rate tag. The laity has planate better plans, too, with a tourist trip vicinity the Moon slated for sometime in the next few years and ambitions to send persons to Mars..

As for Axiom, the startup says there could be more trips to the ISS hind this one. "This history-making flight will represent a watershed moment in the march against unwritten and unanimous inclusion to space," Axiom CEO Michael Suffredini said in a statement. "This will be numb the first of many missions to ISS to be definitely crewed and managed by Axiom Squatness - a first for a commercial entity. Summation the busline marks cogent progress against that goal, and we're glad to be alive with SpaceX in this effort."