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?

[lakeland27]

some of our mining magnates and the treasurer could afford to go , would hockey and gina be charged extra ? barnaby the red face loon could go and claim it on expenses 'i wanted to see the extent of our agricultural land'' 

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@windrake wrote:

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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.

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Dick Whittington?