This star is going to the moon

Chapter 368 Space tourism tickets are being sold three years in advance!
Upon hearing Lu Yun say that tickets were available, Wang Sicong immediately began scrambling to buy tickets for the inaugural flight.

"Damn, it's gone!"

A second flight is also acceptable.

"Damn it, it's gone again!"

This time, I'll buy more tickets for the tenth flight.

"Holy crap, it's gone again! Are there really that many rich people? That's 1000 million!"

Wang Sicong considers himself no ordinary person. Although his "Bamboo Live" platform just went bankrupt last year, he still believes he is no ordinary person.

The reason he wanted to go on a space trip this time was not because he liked the stars and the sea, but because he saw an opportunity to turn his life around.

His plan this time is simply to take a trip to space, make an appearance, and then find a way to secure more investment and start another business.

In that case, he would have better be able to snag the first commercial flight for space tourism on Earth.

This is something that would definitely be in history books, and it would be mentioned by passengers on the first commercial flight.

As a result, not only were tickets for the first commercial flight sold out, but tickets for the subsequent twenty flights were also unavailable.

When he finally managed to randomly jump to the sixty-eighth time, he entered the ticket purchase page.

But when he saw the 1000 million payment option, he hesitated.

"We've already gone through almost seventy times, and if we're going to go to space, we'll have to wait until at least next year. What the hell is the point?"

Wang Sicong was struggling with his decision when his phone rang. He picked it up and saw that a wealthy second-generation friend in his circle had posted a screenshot of himself buying a ticket for space tourism in the group chat, which immediately caused an uproar.

There's no way around it; these rich kids have tried everything.

He's into cars, watches, and prostitutes.

I've never been to space before!
He looked closely and discovered that the other party had bought tickets for the hundredth time onwards.

Wang Sicong didn't hesitate any longer. He realized that half of the five-minute payment time had already passed, so he quickly made the purchase!
After confirming that the ticket purchase was successful, he immediately sent a screenshot to the group.

[Oh wow, Brother Wang's ticket is even further ahead!]

[Brother Wang is awesome!]

Why didn't any of you manage to get tickets for the inaugural commercial flight?

Don't even mention it, there are just too many stupid rich people in China, you can't possibly get any!

【…】

[Damn it, Li Lao Er, we're the rich!]

Damn it...

If it's this lively among the rich idiots, it's naturally even more lively outside, because the rich have already posted screenshots of their ticket purchases to every place they can.

[Haha, I got it! Seat number three on the maiden flight! This guy's going to be in the history books!!]

Holy crap, this is incredible luck! I only managed to buy a ticket for the ninth commercial space tour.

[I'm in an even worse situation; my space travel appointment is booked a year in advance!]

Wow, is it really going to take this long to go to space, a year from now?

Normally, going to space would take longer than this; this is considered fast. It's just that the previous test flight of the Muyuan rocket gave people the illusion that "going to space is quick and easy."

Indeed, back in 2018, a small individual funded the development of Elon Musk's 9-meter diameter rocket, essentially buying a lunar orbiter's journey, which was said to be expected in two or three years.

Goodness, five years! We've got a long wait ahead of us.

Wait, I just realized there are so many rich people in our country?

[Gui Gui, you just spent 1000 million without even blinking?]

[1000 million is enough to buy a house and a luxury car, yet someone would do it just for a 5-hour space tourism experience.]

[It's not just people from our country, but also foreigners.]

Haha, I just saw a guy who has to wait three years to take a space shuttle trip to space.

[Holy crap, space tourism tickets are sold three years into the future!] [Wow, how many flights and how many people? How much money did Blue Star Space make this time?]

This is a good question.

Some people were just watching the spectacle, while others started doing math problems.

Lu Yun once said that space tourism could be conducted on a weekly basis, but Blue Star Space will not be so aggressive at the beginning. Instead, it will choose to conduct one flight per month in the early stages.

After all, it's one thing for our own people to test-fly the prototype, but it's another to start commercial operation with the mass-produced version.

There were problems during the manned test flight of the No. 0 aircraft, such as the air leakage rate exceeding the specified rate by 10%. Although it did not pose a danger, it was indeed a problem.

Once the spaceflight has been running safely for six months without any problems, it will begin once a week.

So next year we can probably fly around 30 times, with six people each time, which would be about 200 people.

After that, there were at least fifty flights a year, which meant about three hundred people.

The passenger who was booked three years in advance will likely have to wait until seven or eight hundred people have completed their commercial space journeys before he can embark on his own.

Sending seven or eight hundred people to space in three years is a rather terrifying number.

It's important to know that since the first manned space mission in the 1960s, nearly 60 years have passed and only 500 people have ever been to space.

Bluestar Aerospace plans to send seven or eight hundred people into space in the next three years!
The new era of manned spaceflight has truly arrived!

As for how much it costs, that's easy to calculate.

However, when calculating the money, the driver should be excluded, because not only does he not pay, but he also receives a salary from Blue Star Aerospace.

Therefore, the revenue from a single commercial spaceflight is 50 million RMB.

Three years means more than 130 flights, each costing 50 million...

It's probably around six or seven billion, small change.

【? 】

[It's indeed a small amount of money, considering that Bluestar Aerospace's valuation is already approaching 5000 billion.]

[That's not how you calculate it. Many of Bluestar Aerospace's valuations can't be directly converted into monetary terms. The current six or seven billion is pure working capital, it's cash.]

[However, I'm worried that this might be a one-time payment. Are there really that many rich people in the world?]

Upon seeing this question, a knowledgeable person familiar with the number of the world's richest people immediately provided the answer: "This is nothing, it's a long way off!"

To put it simply, a ticket to space on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft costs over $5000 million. A billionaire worth $5000 million certainly wouldn't sell everything to buy a ticket for space tourism, but I estimate many wealthy individuals would be tempted to spend $150 million on a single trip to space.

How many billionaires are there in the world with a net worth exceeding $5000 million?

[Over 20 people!]

[Of these, over 8 are Americans, while over 1 are from China.]

Even if we don't say that one in ten of these 20 people are interested, but say one in twenty, that's still 1 people!

Even if the space shuttle flies once a week, carrying five passengers each time, that's only about 260 people a year. Even if the UAE later joined the commercial space tourism sector, the number would still be at most that many people a year. Do the math, how many years would it take to transport 10,000 people?

BlueStar Space has conducted research and found that the actual number of people who want to travel to space is far greater than this.

If a billionaire with a net worth of over $5000 million would consider spending $150 million to go to space, wouldn't a billionaire with a net worth of $4500 million also spend $150 million to go to space?
There are more than just 1 people who want to go to space.

Even if they're not particularly interested in space, they feel compelled to go and see it if others, especially people close to them, go.

This is what it means to compare yourself to others!
Or rather, to maintain a respectable appearance.

Humans have formed many circles to distinguish themselves, but people in the same circle often share many similarities.

For example, wanting to wear clothes of the same price, drive cars of the same price, and live in houses of the same price.

If most people in the same circle play golf, then anyone who wants to join will also need to play, and they might even need to get a membership card at the same level.

Everyone in your circle has a yacht worth $200 million, while you only have a yacht worth $50. How can you join their circle?

Afterwards, people who have traveled to space will form a new circle.

(End of this chapter)