Boeing’s Going to Sell Rides On Its New NASA-Funded Space Taxi

purchasing drive to space is n’t anything new now — in fact , flying in something so old - fashioned as a ‘ abridgement ’ on a ‘ rocket ’ is probably a little passé . But that has n’t stopped Boeing from sticking a tourist buttocks into its new NASA - funded spacecraft .

On the back of yesterday ’s promulgation that Boeing has won a $ 4.2bn NASA contract to fly spaceman up to the International Space Station , a Boeing spokesperson has confirmed that one of the seats on Boeing’sCST-100 Space Capsulewill be book for budding space cadet , with Program Manager John Mulholland tell Reuters that “ part of our proposal into NASA would be flying a Space Adventures spaceflight participant up to the ISS ” .

The price will reportedly be ‘ competitive ’ with what Russia charge to fly tourer up to the ISS at the second — in other intelligence , somewhere north of $ 50 million ( although there ’s no word on whether or not Boeing will be admit the in - flying vodka ) . [ Reuters ]

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