PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SPACE X AND AXIOM SPACE

FOR 10 DAYS ON BOARD THE ISS

After announcing in February a partnership to send four private customers into orbit by 2022, SpaceX is now attacking the International Space Station (ISS). Musk's company announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement with Axiom Space to give it seats on board its Crew Dragon capsule.

The launch of the operation is planned for the second half of 2021. This trip "will mark a turning point in the universalization of access to space", welcomed the boss of Axiom Space, Michael Suffredini. On this occasion, three people should be able to spend 10 days on board the ISS for $ 55 million.

But SpaceX is not the only company that wants to touch the stars. Virgin Galactic (Richard Branson) and Blue Origin (Jeff Bezos) are also involved in space tourism.

They are currently developing vessels capable of sending private passengers, for a few minutes, just over the border of space (80 or 100 km depending on the definitions chosen by each company), for 250,000 dollars or more in the case of Virgin.

Boeing is also developing a vehicle for NASA, Starliner, to join the ISS. The company wants to make private passengers travel there in the future

Those traveling to the ISS will be supported on the SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable rocket. Musk's company has already signed another partnership with a company called Space Advnetures with the aim of offering a five-day trip, for four passengers, aboard the Crew Dragon capsule.

Eight space tourists have already made a trip to the international station in the Russian Soyuz rockets. Latest: Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté in 2009.