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Space Flight Ready This Year

icyfroth — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:31:33 GMT

UK businessman Sir Richard Branson has reiterated his claim that the first Virgin Galactic flight into space will take place later this year.

Celebrities including Hollywood actors Tom Hanks and Angelina Jolie have apparently reserved spaces to become space tourists, with tickets costing six figures and including brief periods of weightlessness during the two-hour trip to 100km above the Earth.

No date has been set for the first commercial flight but hundreds of would-be tourists have made down payments of more than STG125,000 ($A232,000) for the chance to fly.

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Don't think I'll be going somehow lol. Anyone here like to go?

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

windrake — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:39:24 GMT

Put Showbag on it but only if it's one way...woo hooo he's got a one way ticket to the moon

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

icyfroth — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:43:48 GMT

@windrake wrote:
Put Showbag on it but only if it's one way...woo hooo he's got a one way ticket to the moon

There's a few ppl I'd like to see keep him company

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

windrake — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:46:25 GMT

I wonder how long it will take the serial photo bomber to arrive ?

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

icyfroth — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:58:01 GMT

Too busy elsewhere apparently

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jimmy*part4 — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:02:51 GMT

@windrake wrote:
I wonder how long it will take the serial photo bomber to arrive ?

Who's the serial photo bomber?

woo hooo he's got a one way ticket to the moon

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

lind9650 — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:15:06 GMT

LOL, if I had only the money for the deposit, I'd rather buy a house.

How much does the actual flight cost?

To many silly people with more dollars than sense.

Erica

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carls*world — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:33:54 GMT

How much did the US GovCo spend to send Alan Shepard up for 15 minutes?

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jimmy*part4 — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:40:49 GMT

How much does the actual flight cost?

I read it cost $250,000 US.

@carls*world wrote:
How much did the US GovCo spend to send Alan Shepard up for 15 minutes?

The Russian spent $20 million to be the first space tourist aboard Soyuz.

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

zelly888 — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:41:01 GMT

Around $1.7billion in todays prices I read somewhere

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windrake — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:45:36 GMT

@*jimmy1717* wrote:
@windrake wrote:
I wonder how long it will take the serial photo bomber to arrive ?
Who's the serial photo bomber?

woo hooo he's got a one way ticket to the moon

Great pic and no you are not the serial photo bomber, the mayor of London? Whats his name? Is close.

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

lind9650 — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:56:55 GMT

@*jimmy1717* wrote:
How much does the actual flight cost?

I read it cost $250,000 US.

@carls*world wrote:
How much did the US GovCo spend to send Alan Shepard up for 15 minutes?
The Russian spent $20 million to be the first space tourist aboard Soyuz.

That is just the deposit. $250,000

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

jimmy*part4 — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 12:10:50 GMT

@lind9650 wrote:
@*jimmy1717* wrote:
How much does the actual flight cost?

I read it cost $250,000 US.

@carls*world wrote:
How much did the US GovCo spend to send Alan Shepard up for 15 minutes?
The Russian spent $20 million to be the first space tourist aboard Soyuz.
That is just the deposit. $250,000

I guess they have to deposit full price, lol.

"In about a week’s time, we’re going to put the price up to $250,000 until the first 1,000 people have traveled, so that it matches up with inflation since we started," Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson told SPACE.com Monday.

http://www.space.com/20886-virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-ticket-prices.html

Hmmm, Gif juggling nuts? 🙂

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

amber-eyed-girl — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 14:03:33 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtFBRJFN3p8

fly me to the moon...

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electric*mayhem*band — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 14:23:57 GMT

Is there a possibility that Branson himself could go, and maybe not come back ?

Anyhow, he can't even get his Virgin Trains to run properly, so I have my doubts about this debacle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VMYkSeJH0Q

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

amber-eyed-girl — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 14:28:15 GMT

Branson has said he will be going and taking his children too.

But that he cannot afford any casualties or mishaps.

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

icyfroth — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 01:57:32 GMT

I wonder what the inflight movies will be

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pct001wine — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 02:02:07 GMT

Apollo 13 ?

2001: A Space Odyssey ?

"Open the Pod Bay Door, Hal"

"I'm afraid I can't do that, Rich"

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

windrake — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 04:10:25 GMT

Heathrow, we have a problem. We can only hope

Re: Space Flight Ready This Year

windrake — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 04:57:49 GMT

to the moon Alice, to the moon.