The elite club of astronauts is limited to just over 500 people. But if you’ve ever wanted to make the voyage yourself, it might only cost you $10.
The Urgency Network, a nonprofit startup, is behind several goodwill campaigns that use their connections to celebrities like Hugh Jackman, Paul McCartney, Thom Yorke and Richard Branson to offer donors unique experiences.
The model of Urgency Network, founded by Donald Eley and Brandon Deroche, is pretty simple: Donate $10 to a good cause, and you’ll be entered into a raffle to win an amazing prize. Each $10 donation gets you another ticket, and after the first donation, donors can also volunteer for a variety of tasks to earn additional tickets.
And now, thanks to the “Ticket to Rise” campaign, which benefits Oxfam, PETA and the Voice Project, that $10 donation could land you a spot on an XCOR flight, one of two new ventures that will launch commercial space flights beginning in 2015.
“It’s one of the most exciting opportunities of our time. We’re hoping to revive public interest in space and science-related topics,” Deroche told Yahoo News. “There are about 45 nonprofits that are a part of the campaign. We see it as a bridge to get people to take action.”
Needless to say, it’s quite a bargain. A standard ticket aboard the maiden XCOR flight costs between $95,000 and $100,000. The winning donor will take part in training exercises and medical screenings before the actual flight takes place and will then take part in one of the first flights, joining the crew 330,000 feet above the Earth’s surface aboard the XCOR Lynx Mark II shuttle.
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