I think hard to say how much it costs them exactly as there are so many things involved and much is to do with the science experiments and so on. But you can use the figure that Russia charges for space tourists to work out how much it would cost to fly to space as a private individual. They charge $71 million dollars for a week. That's 10080 minutes. So it costs space tourists $7,043 a minute to fly into space, call it a round $7,000 a minute or over $100 a second.
Coincidentally it is almost exactly the same cost you'd have for materials if you wanted to commission a sculptor to make a life size statue out of solid gold.
How much does it cost to ferry an astronaut to the International Space Station?
Coincidentally it is almost exactly the same cost you'd have for materials if you wanted to commission a sculptor to make a life size statue out of solid gold.
How much does it cost to ferry an astronaut to the International Space Station?
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