Boeing to sell seats to the space station

Published 10:58 am Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Now you can add space as another place where you can fly Boeing, according to this story from the Associated Press.

The Boeing Co. has lined up a space tourism company to sell seats on the spaceship it wants to build to fly to the International Space Station.

Boeing says it has a deal with Space Adventures to market seats on the flights. Space Adventures now sells seats on trips to the space station aboard the Russian-built Soyuz spaceship.

The Boeing CST-100 is still on the drawing board. But the company hopes to have the seven-person spaceship operating by 2015.

So far, seven customers have ridden on eight flights through Spacecraft Adventures. NASA has said it wants private companies to handle flights to the space station, carrying a mix of astronauts and tourists.