Space Flight Ready This Year

[icyfroth]

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?

[windrake]

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

[icyfroth]

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@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 

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

[windrake]

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

[icyfroth]

Too busy elsewhere apparently

[jimmy*part4]

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@windrake wrote:

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

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Who's the serial photo bomber?

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

[lind9650]

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

[carls*world]

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

[jimmy*part4]

How much does the actual flight cost?

I read it cost $250,000 US.

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@carls*world wrote:

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

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

[zelly888]

Around $1.7billion in todays prices I read somewhere