ISRO's space tourism plan: challenging Bezos, Branson by 2030

Updated : Mar 18, 2023 08:25
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India's space agency is reportedly planning to challenge foreign industrialists like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson in the arena of space tourism.

The Indian Space Research Organisation is planning to offer space tourism packages by the year 2030.

ISRO officials said that its tickets would be priced "competitively" in the global market, as per a Hindustan Times reports. ISRO chairman S. Somnath said that a ticket to space on an ISRO rocket might cost around ₹6 crore.

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