…that would be $200,000 dollars, sir. This is of course Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s space tourism wing, where passengers will climb aboard for 3.5 hours and receive 6 minutes of weightlessness. Unfortunately, you will have to wait till 2012, but it looks like it would be worth the wait!
There are four ships in the new generation Virgin space fleet with two carriers (‘mother ships’) and two suborbital spacecraft, who have all gone through testing phases.
At present there is only one space port,’Spaceport America’ (below), which is still under construction. Designed by URS and Foster and Partners. However, in future there will be a Spaceport Sweden and there a rumours of a Spaceports in Dubai and Scotland.
There are already bookings from 430 people from all over the world. And success is crucial in this project, especially with its investment figure: $100 million dollars. In addition, Virgin galactic is expected to be the first space tourism company in the world. Virgin, from selling records to breaking records.
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