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I feel like this is disingenuous. If launch costs truly go down to $300/kg - or even within an order of magnitude of that - you’ll see affluent hobbyists sendin

• pfdietz 3y ago
  And $300/kg is the cost when they are still discarding the upper stage. The target for full reuse is more like $10/kg.
• fragmede 3y ago
  It would “only” cost $126 million to put the ISS in orbit at that price. At $300/kg, I could see a space hotel for the ultra rich (given the market for trips to the titanic). How much would a rich person pay to go stay at a space hotel for a week? Is $1 million out of the question? How many people paying that would you need to make it economically worth while? After 126 of them you’d pay for the cost to lift it to orbit, another 126 of them could pay for a lot of creating it and staffing, so we need 500 UHNW individuals to commit to taking a trip to space to have a space hotel be viable? I’m skipping some numbers here, but I’m sure there’s a pitch deck being circled around for that already. Edit: oh someone’s already way ahead of me. They’re charging $5million for a the day trip. https://www.businessinsider.com/voyager-station-first-ever-space-hotel-set-open-in-2027-2021-3#:~:text=The%20first%2Dever%20'space%20hotel,set%20to%20open%20in%202027.&text=Construction%20on%20the%20first%2Dever,will%20cost%20around%20%245%20million https://www.businessinsider.com/voyager-station-first-ever-s....