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]

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@*jimmy1717* wrote:

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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 

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

[lind9650]

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@*jimmy1717* wrote:

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.

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That is just the deposit. $250,000

[jimmy*part4]

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@lind9650 wrote:

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@*jimmy1717* wrote:

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.

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That is just the deposit. $250,000

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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? 🙂

[amber-eyed-girl]

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

fly me to the moon...

[electric*mayhem*band]

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

[amber-eyed-girl]

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

But that he cannot afford any casualties or mishaps.

[icyfroth]

I wonder what the inflight movies will be

[pct001wine]

Apollo 13 ?

2001: A Space Odyssey ?

"Open the Pod Bay Door, Hal"

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

[windrake]

Heathrow, we have a problem.   We can only hope 

[windrake]

to the moon Alice, to the moon.