People who have spent at least $300,000 on space travel

Sharon Hagle, 73, boarded New Shepard 4, flight NS-20, as part of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket program’s fourth crewed mission.

Hagle founded SpaceKids Global, a non-profit organisation dedicated to inspiring children to excel in science and technology.

Her husband, 74-year-old Marc, who grew up fascinated by the space race, accompanied her on the trip.

Virgin Galactic expects 1,000 people to be ready for takeoff when commercial flights begin later this year.

Ron Rosano, a property manager from Muir Beach, California, has two sub-orbital flights scheduled, one with Virgin Galactic and the other with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.

With speeds exceeding 2,200 mph, he could experience G-forces up to six times the force of gravity, as well as weightlessness.

A seat on the first crewed flight, with Bezos and his brother Mark, was auctioned off for $28 million.

A seat on Virgin Atlantic’s suborbital flight costs around $300,000. Craig Curran, 64, is a travel agent and future astronaut from Rochester, New York.

He founded Galactic Experiences by Deprez, a space travel division of his luxury travel company, and is now a Virgin Galactic “Space Agent.”