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Experience takes some people to the remotest parts of the globe. but for those who ve been there done that earth is just such pests so entrepreneurs are now investing in space tourism future travelers could experience zero gravity for anything from a few minutes to a few days it looks set to become a booming business. big plans but the challenges they face are even bigger tests at sea you know in our musk wants to build a city on mars. amazon finder jeff pays off wants to fly to mars and the moon with his company blue arjun taking paying customers along for the ride. british entrepreneur richard branson also believes space tourism is set to take off in his virgin galactic customers couldn t one day pay two hundred thousand dollars to be experience five minutes of zero gravity in space are these just off the wall ideas
Landmark step toward privatized travel into deeper space, to the moon or mars. tom costello joins us live from the kennedy space center. you drew the good straw on this one, tom. reporter: not bad. 70 plus degrees in florida. all systems are good. the weather looks good. so far, no technical issues. elon musk calls this the falcon heavy. it is essentially three falcon 9s put together. as you mentioned, this will now be the biggest launch from the ksc since the apollo moon missions. the giant sitting on the pad this morning in florida is set to lift off with the kind of explosive power not seen here in 45 years. the mission, break through earth s gravitational pull and head for a solar orbit, including mars. this reported $90 million mission, paid for by elon musk, billionaire space founder, who
Mars. reporter: today s mission is also all about the mantra, go big or go home. and in true elon musk fashion, that rocket that he hopes will eventually take humans to the moon or mars, he calls it the bfr, the really big flipping rocket. true elon musk style. the window opens at 1:30 today. weather is good. then he ll put his own tesla, remember that he owns tesla, he s going to put it into a permanent orbit around the sun. good marketing. in fairness, i don t know if it stands, but elon musk said he d like to be buried on mars. reporter: well, in his city or his village, doesn t surprise me. listen, you know, one thing that ll be really cool to watch, ali, is we mentioned that he wants to bring the rockets back down to earth, right? yeah. reporter: well, they ll each have at least one sonic boom. you may have or we may experience six sonic booms as