How much does a ticket to space on New Shepard cost? Blue Origin isn’t saying. (Published 2021) (2024)

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How much does a ticket to space on New Shepard cost? Blue Origin isn’t saying. (Published 2021)? ›

Blue Origin ticket ranges from zero to $28 million

In 2021, Blue Origin auctioned off one seat on its first crewed flight for $28 million, which is significantly higher than the original price tag of $200,000 to $300,000 per seat. However, the company has stated that the average price of a ticket will be around $250,000.

Virgin Galactic has already booked approximately 800 customers, with ticket prices ranging from $250,000 to $450,000 per seat. The company envisions building a fleet large enough to accommodate 400 flights annually.

Axiom has not said how much the mission cost, but members of the previous mission paid as much as $55 million each. Axiom conducted the training for this flight and commissioned the SpaceX launch.

Blue Origin launched its first rocket in more than a year on Tuesday, reviving the U.S. company's fortunes with a successful return to space following an uncrewed crash in 2022.

Bezos has said New Shepard flights will be priced similarly to its competitors. In 2018, two company insiders leaked that commercial flights would be priced at between $200,000 and $300,000, which was in line with what Virgin Galactic charged at the time. (Virgin Galactic has raised its rate to $450,000 per seat.)

Gauging the cost versus price for space tourism is tricky, but Blue Origin's New Shepard tickets reportedly sell for US $1.25 million a pop, with four passengers per suborbital flight. However, some customers get in for free, while another has paid US $28 million for a ticket at an auction.

With SpaceX you can already book space flights for the near future. SpaceX is one of the best-known aerospace companies around, and its founder, Elon Musk, has expressed a desire to provide commercial space flight as soon as possible.

SpaceX wouldn't confirm how much a couple of billionaires paid for around trip to the Moon but Mr Musk stated it was the same price as sending a complete crew to the ISS, currently costs the US $74.4 million per seat.

How much do astronauts get paid? ›

What is the average NASA astronaut's salary? According to NASA, civilian astronaut salaries are determined by the US Government's pay scales – or more specifically grades GS-13 to GS-14. As of 2022, the GS-13 pay scale ranges from $81,216 to $105,579 per annum.

SpaceX is 10X cheaper with 30X lower cost overrun than NASA in lifting payload into space. Why? Because SpaceX is platform-based, NASA not. “The space race is dominated by new contenders,” claims The Economist (18 October 2018).

In 118 space missions, NASA saw an average cost overrun of 90%. Over 16 missions, SpaceX saw an average cost overrun of 1.1%.

While New Shepard only reaches the brim of space, New Glenn is designed to deploy heavier payloads into orbit as the centerpiece of Blue Origin's goal to rival Elon Musk's dominant SpaceX.

The nonprofit Space for Humanity is currently accepting applications for its Citizen Astronaut Program, which trains folks for suborbital spaceflight and will foot the bill for their trip to the final frontier.

Maximum Ascent Velocity: 3,568 km/h (2,217 mph), duration: 10 minutes, 10 seconds. Payload: 38 microgravity research payloads (nine sponsored by NASA). Sub-orbital flight, Payload: Multiple commercial, research (8 sponsored by NASA) and educational payloads, including postcards from Club for the Future.

Launch to space on a rocket

On your 11-minute flight, you'll travel over 3X the speed of sound to pass the Kármán Line at 100 km (62 mi), float weightless for several minutes, and witness life-changing views of Earth before descending gently under parachutes.

SpaceX wouldn't confirm how much a couple of billionaires paid for around trip to the Moon but Mr Musk stated it was the same price as sending a complete crew to the ISS, currently costs the US $74.4 million per seat.

For the world's richest man, who's funded his space company, Blue Origin, with at least $5.5 billion of his own money, that's about $1.38 billion a minute.

But if $450,000 sounds like a lot of money to you, you'd better sit down before I tell you how much it will cost NASA to send astronauts to the moon again. $4.1 billion per four-person flight. That's $1,025,000,000 per astronaut.