The cost of a Virgin Galactic ticket to space
Inflation isn’t just climbing here on Earth. Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc is resuming ticket sales for trips to space at a new price of $450,000 a ride.
Sales are restarting immediately and available tickets range from individual seats to a “full-flight buyout,” chief executive officer Michael Colglazier said in a statement Thursday as the company reported financial results.
Virgin Galactic had charged $250,000 for each ticket, before halting sales while it continued work on its spacecraft.
The Las Cruces, New Mexico-based company is looking to build a space-tourism business after a successful test flight last month with founder Richard Branson and five Virgin Galactic employees aboard. The suborbital trip lasted about an hour.
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp are working on tourism offerings of their own.
Virgin Galactic advanced 5.7% to $33.33 after the close of regular trading in New York.
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