"How much would you pay for a ride to space?" Topic

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.

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

No interest for me.

$-0

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.)

$1,000 USD

$Negative – I wouldn't want to risk dying before my time (I've paid a lot into my pension!!).

$100,000 USD – anything more would be wasting money

"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?

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.

I'd go $100,000 USD for something that would be way beyond anything on my current bucket list.

I do would not enjoy riding in plane, glider, spacecraft, UFO or Quetzalcoatlus.

Negative-- I can see space from here.

Not for me.

I get sick on some amusement park rides!

I would pay more for a ride home again.

I am happy travelling the Cosmos on Spaceship Earth!

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.

10K but not for a suborbital only flight

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…

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

$1.09 USD

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

Whatever I can get my hands on.

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.

It's a good thing none of us do anything others might consider

a titanic waste of cash

I would put down $10 USD for a raffle ticket!

Whatever the price, I'd never survive--because my wife would kill me! :)