Firefly lights the markets up; SpaceX starts selling trips to Mars

6 LorenDB 3 8/8/2025, 12:09:04 PM arstechnica.com ↗

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rvnx · 2h ago
> spacecraft’s first commercial flight, a research mission that was delayed from summer 2026 to also occur in the fall

Interesting wording, this is the same wording as the Titan submarine (that it is not tourists / travelers, but "researchers"). This is to avoid most safety certifications for human travel

potato3732842 · 1h ago
I'm a lot more sympathetic to that reasoning for Mars than I am the deep sea. Anyone going to Mars whether they're paying or getting paid will necessarily wind up having to spend their time doing things that will answer questions and find solutions for problems with sending people to Mars. The deep sea by contrast is "fairly solved" and Oceangate was just trying to make it more accessible.

Also, who cares if you have to pay, you'll make it back with book deals and whatnot on the other end, if you make it back.

That said, I don't think this is actually going to happen and if it does it'll be 2036 not 2026.

beardyw · 1h ago
> you'll make it back

The Martian was just a movie