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 spaceflights, allowing customers to reserve spots on missions to Earth orbit (starting late 2024), the International Space Station (early 2025), lunar orbit, and Mars.
Beyond tourism, the company is also offering "on-orbit research opportunities" for individuals and organizations to conduct scientific studies related to making life in space and on other planets possible.
Missions will utilize SpaceX's Dragon capsule for current operations and the ambitious Starship vehicle for future deep-space travel, though Starship is still in its uncrewed 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.