Well if you're rich and have always wanted to scratch that itch of wanting to be an astronaut, Virgin Galactic is here to help you out. The ommercial space flights launch in 2009, and will allow anyone who can afford the $200,000 price tag to expirience 5 minutes of weightlessness. The plan is to have one airplane called the White Knight take the 8 passengers up high enough to launch SpaceShipTwo, which will take them into a sub-orbit.
Testing will begin later this year, while Virgin Galactic builds a Spaceport in the New Mexico desert. Yes, $200,000 is a lot of money! But you know it you had it to burn, you would be all over this.
[Virgin Galactic via Gizmodo]
2 comments:
Maybe I can get a local's discount.
What, is it that you are a "Virgin"?
Or are you in fact from Space?
Perhaps both?
If both; that's really sad.
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