No space activity escapes Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, who aims to colonize the planet Mars.
After rockets, satellites, the Starlink constellation, the transport of freight and then astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), the iconic founder of SpaceX is embarking on space tourism.
If he sticks to his schedule, with a first tourist flight announced in the fourth quarter of 2021, Elon Musk will have overtaken Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.
This, with a very different economic model.
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Unlike Blue Origin, the space company of Amazon's boss, or Virgin Galactic, that of the British businessman, Elon Musk has not developed a space vehicle dedicated to space tourism.
It does not offer either a "simple" suborbital ballad, at the frontier of space, that is to say a little more than 100 km from Earth.
Elon Musk uses all the technological advances and the proven spacecraft, for a flight in orbit
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