Would You Pay 5.1M Yuan for a Trip to Space?

A Chinese travel platform, Ctrip, is offering a very unusual trip: a Virgin Galactic flight toward space. The price starts at 5.1 million yuan for one person. The trip is planned for 2027 in New Mexico, in the United States.

The package lasts six days. Most days are for training on the ground. The listed price does not include flights to the United States, visas, or insurance. On flight day, a large plane carries the spaceship high into the sky. Then the spaceship uses a rocket to go higher. Passengers can feel weightlessness for a few minutes before the spacecraft glides back to a runway.