SpaceX Adds Cosmic Tourism Offering to Website

According to the company’s website, customers can book missions to Earth orbit as early as this year, with flights to the International Space Station following in 2025.

Jack Daleo

Thursday, May 02, 2024 at 04:31 PM ET

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SpaceX’s Starship upper stage is one of two vehicles listed under the ‘Human Spaceflight’ tab on the company’s website. [Courtesy: SpaceX]

Key Takeaways:

SpaceX has opened bookings for commercial human spaceflight missions to Earth orbit, the International Space Station (ISS), lunar orbit, and Mars, with flights to Earth orbit potentially starting as early as late 2024 and ISS missions in 2025.
Beyond tourism, SpaceX is actively seeking proposals for in-orbit scientific research, utilizing its Dragon capsules for fitness- and exploration-focused studies to support long-duration space missions.
The company plans to use its Dragon capsule and the larger Starship vehicle for these missions, underscoring its ambitious goals for human colonization of the moon and Mars, despite Starship's current testing phase.

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Human spaceflight has long been a goal for SpaceX, the rocket and satellite manufacturing venture of billionaire Elon Musk. Per an update to the company’s website, it appears interested customers can now book their spots on missions to the International Space Station (ISS), moon, and Mars, with flights beginning as early as this year.

SpaceX this week quietly added a “Human Spaceflight” tab to its website, listing four destinations to which customers can book flights: Earth orbit, the ISS, lunar orbit, and Mars. It is unclear when the new offerings were added.