Guy Laliberté

They were comprised of fire eaters, jugglers, and stilt walkers, which gave them their local name, Les Echasseurs de Baie-Saint-Paul.

One of the stilt walkers, Guy Laliberté, saw that there was potential in the group, and so he proposed that they do a province-wide tour for the 450th anniversary of the discovery of Canada by Jacques Cartier, and that would be in 1984.

The anniversary, not the discovery.

That was in 1534.

The prices that he quoted back in 2011 started at... $28,750,000 per astronaut for a 30-day tour.

The price sounds steep, but Bigelow was quick to point out that it's almost $7 million less than Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte paid for only 12 days aboard the space station in 2009.

So he's like, it's a bargain.

As of October 2015, the Bigelow Aerospace website showed several pricing schemes, including $51.25 million for 60 days on a B330 space station.