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We all knew it was coming eventually, but it seems Elon Musk\u2018s SpaceX is finally gearing up to launch its first tourists into orbit.\u00a0The company will start off by sending four private citizens in an experience that would last five days \u2013 as soon as 2021. You can bet those will be four\u00a0very<\/em>\u00a0expensive flight tickets.<\/p>\n The experience will be brokered by Space Adventures, the same company that sent a handful of ultra-rich people into orbit between 2001 and 2009. We don\u2019t know exactly how much the experience will cost, but as noted by\u00a0<\/span>Quartz<\/em>, the last space tourism flight by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte cost about $30 million. SpaceX also previously held a deal with Bigelow Aerospace to fly private tourists for $52 million, but the latter eventually withdrew from the deal.<\/p>\n Space Adventures expects the first tourist flight will happen \u201clate 2021 and mid-2022,\u201d and that participants will need to undergo \u201ca few weeks\u201d of training. The passengers will board the Crew Dragon Capsule that\u2019s expected to have its first manned flight in a matter of months. This spacecraft is built to help astronauts reach the International Space Station, and will launch the first NASA astronauts between April and June.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n