on โ23-02-2014 09:31 PM
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?
on โ23-02-2014 10:45 PM
on โ23-02-2014 10:56 PM
@*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
โ23-02-2014 11:06 PM - edited โ23-02-2014 11:10 PM
@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 weekโs time, weโre 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? ๐
on โ24-02-2014 01:03 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtFBRJFN3p8
fly me to the moon...
โ24-02-2014 01:20 AM - edited โ24-02-2014 01:23 AM
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.
on โ24-02-2014 01:28 AM
on โ24-02-2014 12:57 PM
I wonder what the inflight movies will be
on โ24-02-2014 01:02 PM
on โ24-02-2014 03:10 PM
Heathrow, we have a problem. We can only hope
on โ24-02-2014 03:57 PM
to the moon Alice, to the moon.