If you’ve got a few hundred thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket, you can take a quick trip with companies like Virgin Galactic. Their flights cost around $450,000 per seat.
For that price, you get a few minutes of weightlessness and a view of the Earth’s curve from the edge of space. It’s basically the most expensive rollercoaster ticket in history, about the same as a nice house in a quiet suburb.
The “Billionaire’s Weekend Getaway”
Then there’s Blue Origin and their New Shepard rocket. Their tickets have sold for millions in auctions—one anonymous bidder paid $28 million for a seat. That’s not a house; that’s a small town.
You could literally buy a fleet of Teslas, a private jet, and still have enough left over to buy someone else a ticket just for laughs. It’s the kind of money most of us only see as a number on a Monopoly board.
But wait—there’s an even bigger budget option. If you really want to stay in space for a while, you’re looking at SpaceX and the International Space Station (ISS).
