"IT Billionaire Paying 50 Billion Won Per Person for Spaceflight Costs"

CEO Won Jong-woo Interview on 'Kim Eo-jun News Factory'
"SpaceX Reaches 500km Altitude"

"He is said to be an IT billionaire. This person paid for the other three people's expenses."

Won Jong-woo, CEO of Science and People, said this on the 7th during an interview with 'Kim Eo-jun's Humility is Difficult' News Factory while explaining the costs for space travel. CEO Won cited the SpaceX case, which reached an altitude of 500 km, as an example to describe the era of private space travel.

CEO Won explained, "SpaceX loaded the Crew Dragon onto the Falcon line rocket, and four people boarded it," adding, "Unlike the old Apollo missions, it was quite comfortable. It was spacious and everything was touchscreen. Back in the day, we used to imagine complicated instrument panels with lots of buttons to press."

On the 7th, Won Jong-woo, CEO of Science and People, is being interviewed on 'Kim Eo-jun's Humility is Difficult News Factory' (photo right). [Photo source: Screenshot from 'Kim Eo-jun's Humility is Difficult News Factory' YouTube broadcast]

Regarding the cost of space travel, CEO Won said, "It cost more than 200 billion won. Over 50 billion won per person," and explained, "They stayed for three days." While space travel is often perceived as going up about 100 km and experiencing weightlessness, SpaceX's trip can be considered an actual space journey (flight).

Referring to a case that reached 88.5 km, CEO Won said, "Actually, the weightlessness experience lasts only about 3 to 4 minutes," and explained, "The flight time is about 14 minutes." Boarding a vehicle that reaches 100 km costs about 300 to 500 million won per person, but going up to 500 km like SpaceX is a completely different level of flight, according to CEO Won.

CEO Won said, "To go 500 km, you have to live in a training camp for six months, putting everything else aside," and explained, "there was no separate pilot (on SpaceX). So these people trained and went themselves."

He added, "They practiced hard for six months to achieve that result, but it also requires tremendous physical strength, so having money alone doesn't guarantee you can go."

CEO Won said, "Actually, the concept of astronauts piloting spacecraft has almost never existed, even in the past. It's more like putting people into a huge bullet and shooting it," adding, "SpaceX definitely has the technology to go to places like the International Space Station."

CEO Won said, "(If Russia withdraws from operating the space station) there will be only one space station orbiting in space: China's Tiangong," and added, "(The US) does not want to see this situation. NASA is even talking about building a space station orbiting the moon."

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