efaardvark

I think it's not real, but then again I wouldn't put it past Elon  
Would be curious about the costs of those seats

Wonder if Elon has a thing for vintage WW2 planes?

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Would be curious about the costs of those seats

Not sure.  Neither SpaceX nor Space Adventures has said anything about price.  Definitely in the "if you have to ask you don't want to know" territory.   

I do know that Branson and Bezos are asking around 250k-300k USD for flights on their rockets.  SpaceX has a history of undercutting the competition, but I'd say that $250k for an orbital flight is probably an absolute minimum.  Bezos and Branson only go sub-orbital too.  Sub-orbital means technically into space, but without the horizontal speed to stay in orbit so a sub orbital flight only lasts a few minutes before they come back down.  It would be easy to charge a premium to be able to stay in space for a few orbits.  That would allow much longer (hours, or even days) to play, see the sunrises & sunsets, etc. before having to come back down.  That's likely the low limit.

SpaceX as a private company doesn't have to make public disclosures of their costs, but just the fuel alone would cost around $200k for a minimum-energy orbital launch.  The Dragon capsule seats 7, but the announcement said only 4 tourists at a time.  Even an at-cost flight would therefore be about $50k per passenger just for fuel.  Then you would have to add some amount for the cost of wear and tear on the rocket.  (Yeah they're reusable, but even airline jet engines need an overhaul every few thousand flight-hours.  Those are not cheap, and I'd imagine rockets would be even more expensive and more frequent.)  There's regulatory and infrastructure (launch pad, etc.) costs as well. 

Satellite customers are currently charged between $35M and $60M for a rocket ride on a Falcon 9 by SpaceX.  Space Adventures got Dennis Tito an 8-day stay at the space station (via soyuz) for about $20M if I recall correctly.  If I were to venture a guesstimate I'd say an orbital flight on a Dragon would cost *at least* several $million per ticket.