Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic announced on Wednesday a model of SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first commercial passenger spacecraft. SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is designed to carry 6 paying passengers and 2 pilots 68 miles (110 km) above the surface of the earth, where they’ll have a few precious minutes in weightlessness, before descending back to the ground.
Trips will initially cost about $200,000 and will eventually go down in price. That's far less than the $20 million trip of businessman Dennis Tito on a Russian spacecraft in 2001, considered the first space tourist.
Get a taste for what space tourism will be like – watch Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo animation video:
Friday, January 25, 2008
Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo
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