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Personal logo Parzival Supporting Member of TMP12 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.

14Bore12 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 Supporting Member of TMP12 Apr 2025 10:03 a.m. PST

No interest for me.

John the OFM12 Apr 2025 10:05 a.m. PST

$-0

robert piepenbrink Supporting Member of TMP12 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.)

JMcCarroll12 Apr 2025 11:23 a.m. PST

$1,000 USD

John Armatys12 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!!).

Personal logo ochoin Supporting Member of TMP12 Apr 2025 12:45 p.m. PST

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

robert piepenbrink Supporting Member of TMP12 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?

Personal logo etotheipi Sponsoring Member of TMP12 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.

Personal logo McKinstry Supporting Member of TMP Fezian12 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 S12 Apr 2025 4:46 p.m. PST

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

khanscom12 Apr 2025 4:53 p.m. PST

Negative-- I can see space from here.

Deucey Supporting Member of TMP12 Apr 2025 9:14 p.m. PST

Not for me.

I get sick on some amusement park rides!

korsun0 Supporting Member of TMP13 Apr 2025 7:28 a.m. PST

I would pay more for a ride home again.

Personal logo Herkybird Supporting Member of TMP13 Apr 2025 11:14 a.m. PST

I am happy travelling the Cosmos on Spaceship Earth!

Oberlindes Sol LIC Supporting Member of TMP13 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 Supporting Member of TMP13 Apr 2025 1:46 p.m. PST

10K but not for a suborbital only flight

Andrew Walters13 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 Supporting Member of TMP13 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

jfleisher13 Apr 2025 5:26 p.m. PST

$1.09 USD

forrester14 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

Saxondog14 Apr 2025 12:51 p.m. PST

Whatever I can get my hands on.

Augustus17 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.

Personal logo etotheipi Sponsoring Member of TMP17 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

Personal logo miniMo Supporting Member of TMP17 Apr 2025 10:23 a.m. PST

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

ScottWashburn Sponsoring Member of TMP19 Apr 2025 3:29 p.m. PST

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

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