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SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year

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Re: SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year

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Post by trafficlight »

jansen wrote: post #3

A quote from an article on the Verge says "Musk declined to comment on the exact cost of the trip, but said it was “comparable” or a little more than the cost of a crewed mission to the International Space Station." Does anyone have a rough estimate how much a manned mission to the ISS currently costs?

http://www.businessinsider.com/space-travel-per-seat-cost-so...

Russia currently charges $58 million per seat to the ISS, with the price expected to increase to $80ish million by 2018.

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Post by ktta »

I wonder if it is going to be only two people who are going to go. Will they add more people if they come forward with significant amount of money too?

Seems to me like the cost of taking in another person will be negligible in comparison to the funding they could contribute. This is literally a one-in-a-lifetime experience

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Post by plttn »

jansen wrote: post #3

A quote from an article on the Verge says "Musk declined to comment on the exact cost of the trip, but said it was “comparable” or a little more than the cost of a crewed mission to the International Space Station." Does anyone have a rough estimate how much a manned mission to the ISS currently costs?

If I remember correctly, the price of a Soyuz seat is around $20,000,000USD for tourists, with NASA's price to fly on Soyuz being much higher per seat.

Re: SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year

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Post by suprgeek »

While this feat depends on hitting a lot of intermediate milestones - Falcon Heavy Test, Crew Dragon Unmanned to ISS, Crew Dragon manned to ISS, etc, there is no "show-stopper" that is apparent right now.

I like how they have avoided committing to the much harder "landing on the Moon and then return" scenario.

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Post by trafficlight »

ktta wrote: post #12

I wonder if it is going to be only two people who are going to go. Will they add more people if they come forward with significant amount of money too? Seems to me like the cost of taking in another person will be negligible in comparison to the funding they could contribute. This is literally a one-in-a-lifetime experience

Probably not a ton of extra space for a multi-day trip?

Re: SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year

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Post by redant »

goshx wrote: post #8
jansen wrote: post #3

A quote from an article on the Verge says "Musk declined to comment on the exact cost of the trip, but said it was “comparable” or a little more than the cost of a crewed mission to the International Space Station." Does anyone have a rough estimate how much a manned mission to the ISS currently costs?

$82 millions according to the announcer at Kennedy Space Center while I was waiting for the Falcon 9 launch.

Are you talking about unmanned mission? Because he specifically mentioned crewed mission.

Re: SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year

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Post by cletusw »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #7

Huge SpaceX fan here, but I've heard from various news sources that the company is famous for aggressively posting dates and then slowly letting them slide. Might that be the case here? (Still, even if it's 2 or 3 years, wow!)

The main factor supporting their claim is that they have a very strong incentive to be ferrying crew to/from the ISS around this time, so barring any big mishaps with Falcon Heavy (supposed to be ready this summer/fall), all the pieces should be in place if not by next year, then certainly just a year or two later. Which, as you mentioned, is just as impressive!

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Post by goshx »

redant wrote: post #17
goshx wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$82 millions according to the announcer at Kennedy Space Center while I was waiting for the Falcon 9 launch.

Are you talking about unmanned mission? Because he specifically mentioned crewed mission.

I am talking about the price Russia charges the US to send one human to the ISS. I guess the announcer wasn't correct. That amount would be for 2018.

http://www.businessinsider.com/astronaut-cost-per-soyuz-seat...

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