Cosmo Corps Director General Pavel Pushkin said Tuesday that the flight ticket for the first private orbital spacecraft, in the range of $ 200-250,000, and even plans to open the door for tickets next year.
Moscow-Sputnik.
"The price of the ticket has not changed yet, it may be modified after the completion of the preliminary project phase and after starting the self-employment tests in 2018, we will discuss the price of the ticket and open the ticket door," Pushkin told Sputnik.
The total value of the project is about $ 150 million.
"This is the median estimate, and it has not changed so far, and to this day a small portion of that amount has been attracted, but it is enough for the first phase of the project," he said.
Following the approval of the preliminary draft of the design, the funding needs will be more precisely identified and the missing financial resources will be allocated. "
The Director General of Cosmo Corporation announced earlier in the day that 2020 was set as the start date for flight tests on the first special orbital spacecraft.
The American businessman of Italian descent, "Dennis Tito," the first non-professional space tourist, made a trip to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-32 in April 2001.
The trip cost him $ 20 million and spent a week on orbit orbiting Earth 128 times.
The first non-professional space tourist, the Iranian-American of Anousha Ansari, who was on board the International Space Station from 18 to 29 September 2006, also cost $ 20 million.
But after 2009, after NASA's space shuttles stopped and pressure on Russian vehicles was increased, Russia was forced to stop its space tourism program.
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