Dennis Tito paid a reported $20 million to fly aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket to the ISS in 2001, becoming the world's first "space tourist."
Two decades later, private missions organized by companies like Axiom Space using SpaceX's Crew Dragon have reportedly charged individual seats upward of $55 million.
In just over twenty years, the price of a seat to low Earth orbit for a private citizen nearly tripled.
Proof that even space tourism has its own version of inflation.
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