Ready For Your First SpaceX Flight From L.A. To London?

Earth as seen from above. Photo: Unsplash

First you will be surprised to learn that your flight from LAX to London Space Pad will be only 2.5 hours. It might have been shorter, but, at $15,000 per ticket the company has designed the flight experience to make sure all 33 passengers (nicknamed “Angels”) feel like they’re getting their money’s worth.

Alcoholic beverages cannot be consumed during interspace travel, but pre-flight service back at SpaceXPort has five-star meals and wholesome vegan snacks, symbolizing the best foodstuff planet Earth has to offer. A monoglide transports you to the SpaceX pad and your SpaceXCraft. Onboard, the concierge guides you to a space-ready reclining chaise that suggests poolside in Cabo rather than slow-scale First Class airline seating.

Instead of cocktails, space passengers receive an oxygen mask that feeds an extra boost of Element O oxygen that attenuates your senses, to help enhance your supra-atmospheric inflight experience. It’s a good high. You will be going outside the Earth’s atmosphere where you will witness things only a handful of human beings (also known as astronauts) have seen. Turn up your attention span. This will be a 2.5 hour flight after which Angels get their wings.

The pressurized hatch doors close and a sonic ping announces the beginning of flight procedures. Preflight instructions…