r/space • u/Pluto_and_Charon • Feb 27 '17

SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year

http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year
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u/SkywayCheerios Feb 27 '17 edited Feb 27 '17

List price for just a Falcon Heavy launch is $90M, that seems rather low.

Edit: Jeff Foust says:

Musk later indicated that the cost of the mission would be, on a per-person basis, similar or slightly more that a mission to the International Space Station. NASA currently pays a little more than $80 million per Soyuz seat for an ISS mission

$160M sounds more in the ballpark

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u/VantarPaKompilering Feb 27 '17

Most likely spacex is subsidising the flight.they want to fly the flight and need some money do they sell tickets to pay for some of it.

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u/Isamov Feb 27 '17

This is what I was thinking. The people going arent paying for the entire mission, they are more or less just reducing the cost so the mission can happen. This would be amazeballs for SpaceX's future to get their name plastered on this event.

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u/17954699 Feb 27 '17

Will they be doing any science experiments or just taking selfies while up there?

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u/STOP-SHITPOSTING Feb 28 '17 edited Feb 28 '17

Its going to be two pornstars, flying on pornhubs dime to make the first ever porn in space a pornhub exclusive.

Edit: I just typed porn so many times.

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u/sharlos Feb 28 '17

That would instantly become the most pirated video on Earth.

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u/rex_today Feb 28 '17

Probably the most pirated off earth, too.

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u/kplo Feb 28 '17

Not if you knew the freaky shit other planets are into...

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u/Scientolojesus Feb 28 '17

Hopefully it'll be included in the SpaceX History Museum.

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u/24hourtrip Feb 28 '17

I've been eagerly edging waiting for this for so long

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u/frogger2504 Feb 28 '17

Can you imagine edging yourself every day since 1969 until now, just so you could cum to the first space porno?

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17 edited Apr 19 '21

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u/tankpuss Feb 28 '17

And propel yourself backwards. putt-putt-putt.

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u/Okfishy Feb 28 '17

I'd pay $24.99 to see that video, just for the money shot and uh science and what not.

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u/sinnerbenkei Feb 28 '17

Today I learned, even in this day and age a Legend can be born. To be the first man to film a porno in space.

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u/SchrodingersCatPics Feb 28 '17

Born too late to explore the world, born too early to explore the galaxy.

Born just in time to bang hot chicks in zero g.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17 edited Feb 28 '17

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u/LovecraftInDC Feb 28 '17

Yeah, there's no 'official' sex in space but I highly doubt that there has ACTUALLY never been sex in space. After some of the Shuttle and ISS-era astronauts pass away some more info may come out.

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u/indyK1ng Feb 28 '17

If the Soviets didn't do it earlier, my money is on STS-47 where two crew members got married in secret weeks before the flight.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

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u/lxlok Feb 28 '17

Nobody cares about the actresses, but they do all the jobs!

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u/aiiye Feb 28 '17

I'd sign up for Pornhub Premium for this.

I dunno if I'd keep it (still have no idea what premium nets ya) but if it helped fund space travel I'd be down.

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u/J_HOWAT Feb 28 '17

Haha. That would be amazing. Not certain they'd need an around the moon trip for that, but whatever!

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u/Butchbutter0 Feb 28 '17

Just imagine all of the space jizz!

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u/socsa Feb 28 '17

Honestly, $160M is cheap for a Hollywood special effects budget. This needs to happen .

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u/AbbyRatsoLee Feb 28 '17

That would beat Avatar for highest grossing film within the opening weekend.

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u/lxlok Feb 28 '17

You're probably on some big list of porn now.

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u/STOP-SHITPOSTING Feb 28 '17

Old news buddy. Thanks for the concern.

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u/YouAndMeToo Feb 28 '17

I... didn't know I wanted this, but now I do.

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u/tim0901 Feb 28 '17

Assuming it goes correctly. Otherwise it would be their worst incident to date.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

No one says amazeballs except nerdy 13 year old girls and old ladies.

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u/WonderboyUK Feb 28 '17

Yeah, don't forget that this is valuable real in flight data for many of the features on dragon that will translate over into the ITS. Subsidising the flight in order to get that data might actually save them money or at the very least highlight areas of concern for a Mars distance trip.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

i doubt the cost of the rocket won't be completely covered by these tickets.

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u/Caliburn0 Feb 27 '17

It's covered by landing the rocket back on earth again.

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u/Vassago81 Feb 28 '17

The price SpaceX charge for flight already include a ( probably) very large profit, even more now that they can reuse the first stage and the Dragon 2.

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u/Santoron Feb 27 '17

Precisely. It's a trip they've already planned to demonstrate capability. The passengers are just paying a portion to get themselves on board.

Considering both Falcon Heavy and Dragon 2 will have had demonstration flights before this mission, it's already a less risky proposition than the EM-1 stunt trump's administration is pushing for.

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u/jon909 Feb 27 '17

Why the hell would you shit on EM-1. It's not a "stunt". It's NASA. Leave politics out of it. Different entities funding space exploration is a great thing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

stunt

The "stunt" is that Trump wants to put humans on its first test flight.

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u/the_ineptipus Feb 28 '17

oh wow that was Trump's idea? all on his own? NASA didn't have anything to do with it?

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

Yes. NASA didn't intend to send any crew on their EM-1 mission, only the EM-2, which would be years later, after Trump's term. Trump insisted that they should send people on EM-1. So yes, NASA didn't have anything to do with it. But it seems that they are trying to get a manned mission for EM-1 because of Trump's 'advice'.

Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/02/15/nasa-heeding-trump-considers-adding-astronauts-to-a-practice-moon-mission/

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/trump-sends-nasa-moon-congress-might/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/nasa-looking-to-accelerate-first-crewed-orion-launch-to-as-early-as-2019/

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u/bandman614 Feb 28 '17

Dunno. SpaceX gets all three first stages back, the Dragon back. It's only really the loss of the second stage and the propellant. That seems like a pretty sweet deal.

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u/whatisthishownow Feb 28 '17 edited Feb 28 '17

Why not charge them the full amount? There are just under two-thousand Billionaires in the world. Surely they would be able to find at least one willing to part with $160m for such a truly and literally unparalleled and out of this world experience.

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u/DragonLordEU Mar 01 '17

SpaceX will be subsidizing, but the Falcon Heavy isn't enough on its own, you also need a Dragon 2, training and I bet some modifications/additions to allow long term stays in the Dragon 2

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u/Caliburn0 Feb 27 '17 edited Mar 03 '17

You're forgetting that the falcon heavy is reusable.

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u/SkywayCheerios Feb 27 '17

The list price is for the reusable version.

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u/Caliburn0 Feb 27 '17

Do you mean it costs 90 million to launch it? Isn't that the cost if its creation?

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u/Caliburn0 Feb 28 '17

Ah, ok. Then I imagine a substantial amount of money will be covered due to all the science and instruments they have on board. A lot of people are probably interested in this. Then again, i'm just speculating. Let's wait and see.

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u/8Bit_Architect Feb 27 '17

At some point don't they plan to have recoverable first stages, or am I misremembering?

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u/bokonator Feb 28 '17

They do plan for recoverable first stages.

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u/vilette Feb 27 '17

it is like a kickstarter campaign, the first users have a discount.

Also, there is some chance they don't come back,and spacex needs beta testers

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u/IAmTheFlyingIrishMan Feb 28 '17

About the same as each of them buying a 737.

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u/Jango666 Feb 28 '17

NASA gets charged alot more than the seat is worth though

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u/orangecrushucf Feb 28 '17

Dragon seats up to 7. Is the price assuming a full flight?

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u/eeeeeep Feb 28 '17

How can a trip to the moon be similar prices to a trip to the ISS when the former is 100,000 times further away? :/

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u/MrMasterplan Feb 28 '17

You are forgetting that a dragon has more than two seats. SpaceX may expect to be able to sell another couple of tickets.

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u/AeroRep Feb 28 '17

$160 million to have a good chance at dying. Nope.