iStock/Getty Images Plus Beauty giant Estée Lauder is paying NASA about $128,000 to transport 10 bottles of a skincare serum into space for a photoshoot. NASA’s astronauts won’t appear in the images of the "advanced night repair" serum taken from the International Space Station – but the cosmos will. The shoot forms part of NASA’s plans to create a space-based economy. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Beauty giant Estée Lauder is sending one of its skincare serums to the International Space Station for a four-and-and-half hour photoshoot by NASA astronauts.The brand is paying NASA about $128,000 to send its "advanced night repair" serum to space.A spacecraft delivering commercial supplies, including radish seeds, a new toilet, and 10 bottles of Estée Lauder serum, will launch from Virginia "no earlier than October 1," and take around four days to reach the ISS, the companies said.NASA astronauts will film and photograph the serum in the ISS's Cupola, an observatory with seven windows that provide panoramic views of space.