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By Morten
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Following up on the Blue origin and Virgin Galactic flights, the real thing is also scheduled for later this year.

For those who want the full experience, there will be more missions like this one coming up soon: Inspiration 4

Tickets are roughly in line with the earlier prices I mentioned on those threads ... But you do get 48 hours - around 25 orbits - of proper floating and looking down on humanity. (Yes, all of it - Inspiration 4 will be above the ISS and at the moment, no human is higher than that...)

I believe that this will be the first transfer capsule to have an actual toilet as opposed to the astronauts just sitting in nappies. Which for 48 hours is probably a good thing. Allegedly this toilet is installed 'on the ceiling' which of course in space doesn't mean anything but appears to be where you can sit and look out of the cupola which replaces the docking port, used to dock the 'normal' Dragon capsule to the ISS. So you would have a great view from the throne! (less so the astronauts below you...!)

So, if you have an estimated 30-40 MUSD spare - here's one way to spend them.