One of the potential space tourists doubted the reliability of the Ilona Mask ship and chose to fly into space on the Russian “Union”. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
“Literally talked with him. Yes, he respects everything to everything that Ilon Mask does, but he believes that he has been not great for safe flight statistics,” said Sergey Kostenko, who heads the Russian representative office of the space operator Tourism Space Adventures.
According to Kostenko, despite competition with Spacex, the number of people who want to fly on the ship “Union” did not decrease. Another flight, in which two space tourists will take part, scheduled for December.
“Mask operates in the same price ranges, so it’s about everything equally and at the mask, and we”, “the TASS quotes the word Kostenko. It is about 50 million dollars (3.6 billion rubles) for the flight, clarifies the Prime Agency. The exact amount depends on what service will receive a tourist.
Space Adventures organized eight tourist flights to the Russian segment of the International Space Station. Her last client, the founder of Cirque du Soleil Gi Lalibert, visited the orbit in 2009.