The American "SpaceX" company announced its intention to send three tourists to the International Space Station, next year, which is considered the first private manned flight to the space station. The cost of a tourist flight ticket is about 55 million dollars.
The 10-day trip is scheduled to carry ordinary citizens, who will be taken to the Orbital Science Laboratory to spend time with astronauts and experience life there in conditions of zero gravity. One seat has already been reserved, by an unidentified rich space lover, according to the New York Times. The flight would be launched in late 2021 using the Falcon 9 missile, along with one of the SpaceX capsules, Crew Dragon.
SpaceX, run by American billionaire Elon Musk, has spent years testing the capsule and is set to fly into the International Space Station manned by NASA astronauts for the first time later this year. According to "Russia Today".