Tourism In Space

We touched on this story a couple months ago, but now it seems like it is real.....

"Virgin Galactic readies for Monday's unveiling of SpaceShipTwo — the first-class space tourist's wonder machine at the core of the space tourism firm's suborbital fleet. The scene is spacecraft manufacturer Scaled Composites at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. No doubt, there's plenty of pomp and circumstance that's due this debut — although specific aspects about the rocket plane's rollout remain under wraps. SpaceShipTwo is a carbon composite cousin in construction and design to SpaceShipOne — the privately financed, single-piloted spacecraft that bagged the $10 million Ansari X Prize purse by flying back-to-back treks to suborbital space in 2004. That "Tier One" project was under the wing of veteran aerospace designer Burt Rutan, along with his team at Scaled Composites, and funded by greenbacks from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Over $100 million in cold cash was doled out in hot pursuit of the prize (FoxNews)."

Each seat will go for $200,000, which to be honest I thought it would be far more expensive. Their goal is to have an entire fleet one day with a mothership they can all meet at. All I have to say is it is about fucking time. I want to go to space, so now I just need this fucking site to take off, so I can purchase by $200,000 ticket....