How long will it be before space travel becomes affordable for everyone, and how much would you pay to orbit?

the earth?
These first six answers are utterly inane and not a one of them deserves the best answer title, so I'm looking extending the question and looking for a better answer.

I'm thinking next thursday would be a good day...so to answer your question, not very long at all ;o)
And I'd pay at the most $275 round trip.

you want an opinion? or a guesstimate?...my guess is itll be a good amount of money....i wouldnt pay to leave this planet....but if i caught a ride to another one for free, id love to take a trip.

another 15 to 20 years space travel for common people is possible . iwould pay 1 lakh $ for alakh miles in space.

not for a long time, and probably not until "space elevators" are built. rockets will never be cheap. search for that if you want to learn more.

affordable? never. at least not with any technology that we can think of today. space ship-1 cracks me up. any satellite that goes below 120 miles slows down because of atmospheric drag, and comes down. ss-1 went up 50 miles, at which point the speed was 0. not the 18,000 mph that it takes to stay up. get real, it ain't happening.

i can't afford it. you neither. would be way cool though.

Never.

"Affordable for everyone" means even the poorest person can afford it. Since there are millions of people who can not even afford food, it is unlikely they will ever be able to afford space travel.

If you mean affordable to the average American, probably never also.

Calculate how much energy is needed to get a 150 pound load from earth's surface to orbit. Convert that energy amount into gallons of gasoline, or hydrogen, or some other form of energy. Multiply that times the price per gallon. You will see that the cost of the fuel alone to get a 150 pound person up into orbit is too expensive. The only solution is we come up with some dirt cheap form of energy such as controlled fusion power.

It is not certain for how long it Will become affordable for everyone. I mean it is already accessible for anyone who wants to pay 20 million dollars (Russia). But i think it will not be affordable at least for 100 years because the technologies and instruments that are used to build spaceships and make them suitable for man kind are in the millions and most of the time billions. Also it still is not a save trip for everyone to go, astronauts go through a series of training and adjustments to adapt to life on space and aboard a spacecraft.

I don't think it will be long for space travel to be affordable for most people. It only cost them $500.00 a piece to send "Scotty" from star trek and the other deceased passengers to go to space and come back. I think the more private companies that get to space the cheaper it will get.

Not sure until space travel becomes affordable for everyone. Try calling NASA. To orbit around the earth, I would pay $950 for one person for the most.