>>14312633>Any advice on how I can buy a ticket to space one day? Please God hahaIf SpaceX decides there is enough demand to do LEO space tourism with starship, assuming a 2 million internal launch cost by 2030 (the flight rate of starship should be pretty high by then to support lunar + starlink + commercial + martian operations, and I believe they will have achieved their goals of rapid reuse by then), and 100 people per ship to LEO, and also assuming SpaceX wants to make a 100% profit for each tourism launch, then the average cost of a ticket to LEO on starship would be 40000 dollars. If SpaceX does 100 of these tourist launches to LEO per year with starship, they're making 200m in profits from space tourism per year. I think the demand would be incredibly high at first though, and SpaceX would have total market dominance, so realistically they'd start with around 100000 dollars per LEO ticket tourist ticket, lowering it over time. By 2040 there will probably be many actual destinations for starship in earth orbital + cislunar space, not including martian colonization missions, and SpaceX will probably lower the price of a ticket to somewhere around the 20k range.
