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Post by Roland of Gilead on Jul 28, 2008 14:09:26 GMT -5
This is really happening, and not something someone is trying to get financing for. It's from Richard Branson, and you can see a picture of the mother ship being built. A quick trip into space will cost you $200,000, but there are already quite a few pre-paid reservations. __________________ www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/07/28/space.tourism.ap/index.html MOJAVE, California (AP) -- Virgin Galactic is giving the world a glimpse of its secret space tourism program. Workers prepare the White Knight Two in this undated photo provided by Virgin Galactic. Sir Richard Branson's space company Monday trotted out the mothership aircraft that will launch a still-to-be-built spaceship out of the atmosphere. The mothership is a white, four-engine plane with room in the middle where the spacecraft will go. The early morning rollout in California's Mojave desert came four years after SpaceShipOne became the first private manned rocket to reach space. Now the White Knight Two aircraft being shown today is due to undergo flight tests this fall. More than 250 customers have paid $200,000 or put down a deposit for the chance to be one of Virgin Galactic's first space tourists. iReport.com: Do you dream of being an astronaut? A date for the first launch has yet to be announced.
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