Who Wants to Travel in The Space?

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The time to be space tourists has come. But forget low-cost travels.

The founder of Virgin Records, the british Richard Branson, presented in the Mojave Desert (California) his new space ship Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo (SS2).

The first space travel will be obviously reserved to Branson and his family. But he confirm that the booked flights are already for 300 people, leaving a deposit of at least 40 million dollars. The flight price is 200′000$, and it offers a flight of almost 3 hours, going to 15km using another special aircraft where the SS2 will be fixed, the Whiteknight 2, that will release the SS2 to reach with his own energy 100km of altitude, overcoming the athmosphere and giving the tourists also 5 minutes of total absence of weight.

Obviousy the space ship has luxury furniture and services, a Ferrari of the skyes.

If you have a lot of money in your bank account, you might consider to be a space tourist. Or maybe, if we’ll wait some years, this great experience could be possible for much more people.