 Parzival  | 12 Apr 2025 9:15 a.m. PST |
Essentially Blue Origin and SpaceX are selling rides into space— either suborbital or even orbital. And there are other companies getting in to the mix. Would you buy a ticket to space (presumably round trip), and if so, how much would you pay? $Negative 0– You can't get me into one of those things.
$0 USD– Gottabe free, baby!
$1 USD— I'm just messing with the poll, because this would be absurd.
$10 USD– Still really just messin'. But ya never know…
$100 USD– Cheap thrill trip, to say I've done it? Why not.
$1,000 USD– Yes, I want to go into space, but I'm not made of money.
$10,000 USD- I've got some cash, and it's always been my dream
$100,000 USD– I'm elite, and can swing it, or I'm willing to save up/spend my kid's inheritance.
$1,000,000 USD– I'm comfortably well off.
$1,000,000,000 USD– I'll buy the rocket.
Already done it— there might be someone here incognito…
Other— name your price. |
| 14Bore | 12 Apr 2025 9:42 a.m. PST |
Negative, they don't have a very good bathroom for me.
But except for that, have no issues in vlosed space so would be a great trip |
| Grattan54 | 12 Apr 2025 10:03 a.m. PST |
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| John the OFM | 12 Apr 2025 10:05 a.m. PST |
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| robert piepenbrink | 12 Apr 2025 10:12 a.m. PST |
Now? Nothing. Fifty years ago, I'd have been interested, but only in a one-way. What we're being offered--climb into a little box; there's noise, vibration and a view out a porthole, then the noise and vibration stop and you can get out--sounds like a very expensive Disneyland. (And I wouldn't pay for Disneyland, either.) |
| JMcCarroll | 12 Apr 2025 11:23 a.m. PST |
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| John Armatys | 12 Apr 2025 11:31 a.m. PST |
$Negative – I wouldn't want to risk dying before my time (I've paid a lot into my pension!!). |
 ochoin | 12 Apr 2025 12:45 p.m. PST |
$100,000 USD – anything more would be wasting money |
| robert piepenbrink | 12 Apr 2025 1:06 p.m. PST |
"I wouldn't want to risk dying before my time." That's not a problem for me. If I don't wake up in the morning, I'll still have died at least two years after my time. Or is there a mandatory hitch? You have to live so many years, or come back and try again? |
 etotheipi  | 12 Apr 2025 1:57 p.m. PST |
With my injuries, treatments, and meds, I'm about a decade past my expected lifetime. I am also at more risk of dying by staying on Earth and getting on the roads than I am in space. -$(my current salary) per year. If it were my job, I would go. The tourism draw is kind of weak for me. I would need a purpose and something to do. |
 McKinstry  | 12 Apr 2025 4:45 p.m. PST |
I'd go $100,000 USD for something that would be way beyond anything on my current bucket list. |
| Jay R S | 12 Apr 2025 4:46 p.m. PST |
I do would not enjoy riding in plane, glider, spacecraft, UFO or Quetzalcoatlus. |
| khanscom | 12 Apr 2025 4:53 p.m. PST |
Negative-- I can see space from here. |
| Deucey | 12 Apr 2025 9:14 p.m. PST |
Not for me. I get sick on some amusement park rides! |
| korsun0 | 13 Apr 2025 7:28 a.m. PST |
I would pay more for a ride home again. |
 Herkybird | 13 Apr 2025 11:14 a.m. PST |
I am happy travelling the Cosmos on Spaceship Earth! |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 13 Apr 2025 11:24 a.m. PST |
You couldn't pay me enough. Well, maybe you could. I guess I'd have to see the offer. 30 or more years ago, I might have given a different answer. Now I feel that I've done enough of these kinds of things. |
| Louis XIV | 13 Apr 2025 1:46 p.m. PST |
10K but not for a suborbital only flight |
| Andrew Walters | 13 Apr 2025 1:49 p.m. PST |
I'd definitely go $100 USD, and I might go $1,000. USD Yeah, I'd go $1,000. USD After all, at that price a lot of people would be doing it. But I'm not into one-time experiences enough to pay $10,000. USD There is no chance the price is going to get that low, anyway. The safety protocols and insurance alone are going to keep the price high. Of course, if we can pay to send other people into space there might be a few people who want to send me… |
| Louis XIV | 13 Apr 2025 4:42 p.m. PST |
There is no chance the price is going to get that low, Somehow I have a feeling airplanes were once a passing fad with no practical use for the average person |
| jfleisher | 13 Apr 2025 5:26 p.m. PST |
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| forrester | 14 Apr 2025 4:02 a.m. PST |
Only if I can use my pensioner's bus pass Though actually it would still be no
I bottled out of Space Mountain at Disneyland |
| Saxondog | 14 Apr 2025 12:51 p.m. PST |
Whatever I can get my hands on. |
| Augustus | 17 Apr 2025 9:07 a.m. PST |
Complete joke..grandstanding on a horrendous scale…ego massage…all spring to mind. Wow, gee, look we're at the Karman line. Who cares? Firing a bunch of movie stars and morons ina tin can is a waste. If we aren't going to the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, or further, this is stupid. Rattling people around a tin can is boring. Been there, done that. The spin on this garbage and attempts by a moronic media to spin it as something other than a titanic waste of cash is more than disgusting. I'm sure Katy Perry has valuable insight into orbital navigation and engineering applications to change spaceflight forever. |
| etotheipi | 17 Apr 2025 9:25 a.m. PST |
It's a good thing none of us do anything others might consider
a titanic waste of cash |
 miniMo | 17 Apr 2025 10:23 a.m. PST |
I would put down $10 USD for a raffle ticket! |
| ScottWashburn | 19 Apr 2025 3:29 p.m. PST |
Whatever the price, I'd never survive--because my wife would kill me! :) |
