The Commercial Spaceflight Market

A ticket on SpaceShipTwo cost $450,000 back in 2021 (it will cost you $600,000 in 2024) which, after dividing that number by the number of minutes (3 on a good day) in microgravity, equates to $112,500 per minute. Blue Origin? In 2023 Blue Origin was still not advertising its flight prices but one story that got a lot of traction was the auctioning of a ticket that cost a whopping $28 million. Divide that number by four and you get $7 million per minute. How does this compare with the crewmember cost on the International Space Station (ISS)? Well, when you amortize the costs of building the orbiting outpost and combine this with the cost of training, flights and resupply you come up with $7.5 million per crewmember per day.