Boeing and Vienna, Va.-based Space Adventures Ltd. have announced plans to create a “space taxi” service for private citizens to enter low-Earth orbit.
Assuming the program can overcome the many obstacles inherent to such a groundbreaking plan, the firms believe they can have the service up and running by the end of 2015.
This plan “creates another opportunity to jump-start the human migration to space, ” said Brewster Shaw, Boeing’s vice president and general manager of space exploration, according to The Washington Post. “The goal of his division, ” he said, is to create a “Boeing commercial aircraft of human space commerce.”
Space Adventures has previously organized seven space trips using a Russian rocketship. A ticket on one of those trips reportedly cost $40 million.
