A new Russian company called CosmoCourse is planning to launch suborbital space tourism in four years using a plan that looks a lot like what Blue Origin’s New Shepard system. The specifics are:
- Technology: fully reusable launch vehicle and spacecraft
- Crew: 6 tourists + instructor
- Ticket price: $200,000 to $250,000
- Altitudes: 180 to 220 km
- Cabin volume: 30 m 3
- Weightless time: 5 to 6 minutes
- Flight time: 15 minutes
- First flight: 2020
- Launch Site: Kapustin Yar
CosmoCourse is a company of Sk0lkovo, a high-tech business incubator located outside of Moscow that was created as Russia’s answer to Silicon Valley.