08. If there is some sort of space hotel, will Virgin Galactic take us there for relatively the same price as flying to places on Earth? (A K2S Question)

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From 2010 to 2020, ticket prices to an orbital hotel will be more than $1 million per seat, while tickets to a nice island resort today generally cost $500 to $2,000. After 2020, as the idea of orbital hotels catches on, prices likely will drop below $1 million and surely will reach $100,000—but how fast they may drop is impossible to predict now.

Answer provided by David Gump & Gary Hudson

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer