Virgin Galactic, a part of Virgin Group, can show you more than 200 people signed up for sightseeing trip into the space. Virgin Galactic has decided the fare at $200,000 for a single trip, which will take the passengers to a height of more than 62 miles into the sky. That is true. After SpaceShip one, winner of the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004, Richard Branson and aircraft designer Burt Rutan unveiled two new aircrafts, SpaceShip Two and it’s carrier WhiteKnight 2, at the Natural History Museum in New York. Virgin Galactic, which already has more than $30 million in deposits, includes some famous names like physicist Stephen Hawking, former soap star Victoria Principal and designer Philippe Starck, in its passenger list. Test flights for both of the ships may come this year and then its Suborbital space flight in 2009 or 2010. White Knight 2 will have the wingspan of a B-29 bomber and this tremendous design also feature lots of safety measures. Well, it is like the first car or first phone, which not everyone can afford at the beginning, but hopes to become cheaper after a decade or so.
Via: PopularMechanics
