Chris Gunn for Axiom Spaceįor more about the three paying customers, check out our coverage here. Lopez-Alegría, a veteran of four trips to space between 19 during his time with NASA, is commanding this mission as an Axiom employee.Īx-1 Crew (left to right) Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, Michael López-Alegría, and Eytan Stibbe. For each mission, bringing on the necessary support from NASA astronauts will cost commercial customers another $5.2 million, and all the mission support and planning that NASA lends is another $4.8 million. Getting provisions to and from the space station for a commercial crew is another $88,000 to $164,000 per person, per day. The mission is made possible by very close coordination among Axiom, SpaceX and NASA, since the ISS is government-funded and operated.Īnd the space agency has revealed some details on how much it’ll charge for use of its 20-year-old orbiting laboratory.įood alone costs $2,000 per day, per person, in space.

It’s also the first time private citizens have traveled to the ISS on a US-made spacecraft.Īxiom previously disclosed a price of $55 million per seat for a 10-day trip to the ISS, but the company declined to comment on the financial terms for this specific mission - beyond saying in a press conference last year that the price is in the “tens of millions.” But this is the first mission that includes a crew entirely comprised of private citizens with no active members of a government astronaut corps. It’s not the first time paying customers or otherwise non-astronauts have visited the ISS, as Russia has sold seats on its Soyuz spacecraft for various wealthy thrill seekers in years past. These are the four people launching on SpaceX's first ISS space tourism mission Left to right: Michael López-Alegría, Mark Pathy, Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe.

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