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Virgin Galactic plans space flights by 2008

Posted Jul 18, 2006 at 08:16AM by Kyle M. Listed in: News, Space Exploration, Spacecraft Tags: MSNBC, Virgin Galactic, SpaceShipTwo, Richard Branson
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Virgin Galactic, a division of the Virgin group owned by multi-millionaire Richard Branson plans to have it's own plane/rocket hybrids in flight as early as 2008. Former soap star Victoria Principal, designer Philippe Starck and a senior member of an unidentified royal family have already snapped up tickets for one of the worlds first space tourist flights in 2008.

Self-made millionaire Branson told MSNBC on Monday that Virgin Galactic were on track to launch the sub-orbital flights for the year after next and that they have already sold tickets to its first 150 passengers at no less than $200,000 per ticket! Along with the 150 passengers with tickets already, Virgin Galactic confirmed that 300 potential passengers were going through a detailed reservation process while 60,000 had registered interest via the Virgin Galactic Web site. Design work on Virgin's SpaceShipTwo spacecraft that will most likely carry the passengers is expected to be completed next year.

The spacecraft to be used by Virgin is based on SpaceShipOne, which in 2004 won the $10 million Ansari X prize offered to the first private organisation to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. Virgin Galactic are building five models of SpaceShipTwo, a larger version of SpaceShipOne. Virgin said that the $200,00 customers will spend only 15 minutes in space, including just five minutes of weightlessness.

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