Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

The last question comes from The Wyandotte on the Discord server, who asks, Would you travel to space if space tourism actually becomes a thing?

It depends on what it entails and how much it costs. I can’t see spending my life savings on a 15-minute suborbital flight for a few minutes of weightlessness. That is pretty much the current state of space tourism.

The costs would need to decrease by one to two orders of magnitude to be worth it.

That being said, it is possible that such a thing might happen over the next decade or two. If Starship can fly on a regular basis and it proves to be totally reusable, there is a planned configuration where it could take about 100 people at a time on brief orbital flights.

This would still probably be expensive, but not spend everything you have expensive.

Under that sort of scenario, it would be something that I’d at least consider, that is, of course, assuming that they have proved the safety of the ship at that point with dozens or hundreds of flights.