Space Travel - the idea takes flight!
Thursday, September 28, 2006 - Richard Branson, Virgin, announced that they are launching a program to take travelers to space for a mere $200,000 per seat. They are in the planning stages with Mojave, California-based Scaled Composites and aerospace designer Burt Rutan.
SpaceShipTwo spacecraft will begin testing in 2008 and they are hopeful to have the spacecraft in production and taking passengers into space in 2009.
The vehicles will be three times larger than Rutan's SpaceShipOne (pictured above) and will carry six passengers and two pilots from a modified Boeing 757.
More to come I imagine.
A mere $200,000? Where do I sign up?
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Sparkling |
4:52 PM