…has been selected, but hasn’t been announced yet, Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures, said during a luncheon speech at the ISDC Friday. “The next [tourist] flight is next year,” he said. “We have the person who is going to go but we haven’t yet disclosed their name. But it will be another exciting one, it will be another first.” Anderson also said that the current cost of an orbital flight is $25 million, in line with earlier reports about Simonyi’s flight but more than the $21.8 million price quoted by Roskosmos this week.
Anderson was also revealing few details about Space Adventures’ suborbital flight plans. The company has kept a low profile about those plans since a flurry of publicity back in early 2006. “I prefer not to comment on that too much right now,” he said. “We are still working on it. Everything costs more and takes longer, so we’ll see.” At the other extreme, he said there is still strong interest in the company’s circumlunar space flight proposal. “I have a few people who are interested,” he said, adding that he plans to work with them over the next few months to get them to formally sign up.
“Anderson also said that the current cost of an orbital flight is $25 million, in line with earlier reports about Simonyi’s flight but less than the $21.8 million price quoted by Roskosmos this week.”
Are those numbers reversed?
“At the other extreme, he said there is still strong interest in the company’s circumlunar space flight proposal. “I have a few people who are interested,†he said, adding that he plans to work with them over the next few months to get them to formally sign up.”
Don’t know if he’s got 100 million to blow, but if he did my guess would be Tom Hanks.
[…] according to SPACE.com. That’s a bit later than what Anderson said a month ago at the ISDC, when said he was working with a few prospective customers over the next few months to sign them up for the flight. The ticket still costs $100 million each, with two available for […]