Learning under Russia, NASA intends to sell travel tickets to ISS

NASA is considering selling travel tickets to people with money to the ISS space station, before moving on to build a commercial space station in 2025.

NASA's reform efforts under director Jim Bridenstine are privatizing the agency's travels, just like the Russians are doing.

According to the Washington Post, NASA is considering the ability to sell space travel tickets to private customers on the ISS international space station . This idea is part of a series of proposals to expand the reach of NASA's private companies.

Accordingly, paid astronauts can fly to the ISS station, get astronaut certificates, and even allow private companies to name rocket names according to their wishes.

NASA is considering the ability to sell space travel tickets for private customers to the ISS international space station.

This activity is defined as "space-based advertising activities" , aimed at increasing funding for NASA.

NASA intends to charge millions of dollars for a space trip, done on the spacecraft of Boeing and SpaceX.

Sales of these trips will help NASA "facilitate the commercialization of space platforms in and out of" low Earth's orbit.

NASA also intends to "sell the brand" to companies that meet their conditions. Now NASA does not attach its logo to private spacecraft because of concern that this will be seen as a quality endorsement by the agency with rocket manufacturing companies.

"NASA has the best brand in the world and it is important that we make sure we are using it in a way that helps people feel America in a different way around the world," Michael Gold, an advisor to NASA said.

Before NASA, Russia privatized quite a bit of its space industry. In fact, the US itself is "funding" Russia's space exploration activities when Roscosmos sells chairs to space for US astronauts and sells RD-180 rocket engines to the United States.