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SpaceX will send three tourists to space next year, as confirmed by the company owned by Elon Musk, the South African who is also CEO of Tesla . The trip will last 10 days and will cost around 55 million dollars per person . This is the second announcement of this type so far this year and an important step in the race to control space tourism.

The three privileged will spend eight days living with the astronauts of the International Space Station (ISS) and two days traveling the distance between the Earth and its final destination, in an agreement between SpaceX and Texas Axiom Space that, if it occurred, it would become the first private space flight in history.

"This historic flight will represent a decisive moment on the road to universal and routine access to space," said Axiom CEO Michael Suffredini , who will manage the logistics of the three passengers. "This will be only the first of many ISS missions to be manned and fully managed by Axiom Space, the first for a commercial entity."

Space X talks about "a new era of human exploration" in its statement and the ship they will put to make the trip possible, the Crew Dragon powered by the Falcon 9 rocket , a trip only possible after the agreement with NASA to open the International Space Station for luxury tourism.

Musk has been working on the development of the Crew Dragon for years with the goal of transporting NASA astronauts later this year and demonstrating the reliability of their space missions. On February 18 he announced that he will take four tourists on his ship on a space trip around Earth in late 2021 or early 2022. The trip would last five days and would not make contact with any space station . To date, seven people have been able to enjoy the experience of visiting the ISS without being astronomical, all of them aboard the Russian Soyuz.

"I think we will begin to see much more energy in the market as people realize that this is real, that it is happening," Suffredini added. NASA recently announced that it selected Axiom's proposal to incorporate modules to the ISS with the idea of operating as a commercial station for space tourists in the future , once the ISS ceases to operate.

SpaceX, for its part, has successfully managed to transport cargo for NASA missions and launch commercial satellites. Space tourism could represent a new and very lucrative branch for your business. It seems a matter of time.

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