Richard Branson

Up, up and away: As Blue Origin makes its sixth flight, how much does space tourism cost and will it ever be affordable?

After a number of flights into space by SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic in the last one year and several more lined up, one thing is certain: space tourism is finally taking off. But, with prices running into hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions, will it ever be affordable?

Explained: Who is Japanese tycoon Yusaku Maezawa who took a trip to the ISS? Have other billionaires done this?

Maezawa is a tycoon who made his fortune in fashion retail, launching Japan’s largest online fashion mall, Zozotown. As per Forbes, the 46-year-old is worth around $2 billion

Here are the eight space tourism options that will give you a taste for the unknown

Elon Musk's SpaceX has four private space tours - Inspiration4, AX-1, space adventure and dearMoon - lined up with various private players travelling to the moon or orbiting the earth.

Watch: US company Virgin Hyperloop unveils new video of passenger pods that can travel at 1,000 kmph

Unlike trains, these battery-powered pods will not be connected, so that it will allow people to travel to different destinations

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Twitter to break down just how rich is Jeff Bezos

Tyson had also said that neither Branson nor Bezos actually went to space since it was just a suborbital flight.

Amazonification of space has begun with private players making space travel accessible

The people who sold you the internet will now sell you the moon and the stars.

Blue Origin's first passenger spaceflight with Jeff Bezos and crew takes off; everything you need to know

The all-civilian crew will include Bezos, his brother Mark; female pilot that NASA rejected for its astronaut program, Mary Wallace 'Wally' Funk and high school graduate Oliver Daemen.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin gets nod to send him and three others to space

It will be the first launch with passengers for Blue Origin, which, like Virgin Galactic, plans to start flying paying customers in the months ahead

Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos have opened up space for travel but not everyone can access it

Many private players are trying to make inroads into the space industry but the cost of travelling into the unknown is still very steep making it inaccessible for many.

Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson flies to space: How Twitter reacted to Unity 22 launch

At an altitude of about 13 kilometres, Unity detached from the mothership and breached Mach 3 as it shot into space.