Although not directly airline news, I feel this falls under “future airline news” since who knows, boarding a plane (or spaceship?) might just be as easy and cheap as it is now to fly (hopefully they won’t charge for peanuts).
Anyhow, Virgin Galactic has shown to the world (and galaxy?) what White Knight Two “Eve” Mothership will look like (hmm maybe pick a name?). This aircraft would take SpaceShip2 up to about 48,000 feet before it takes the six wealthy folks 300,000 feet in only 90 seconds.
For a mere $200,000 you can book your seat to fly into space. Even though going to the ends of Earth for $200k might not seem like a good deal to most people, I think it is great since it will pave the way for private space exploration. There are enough wealthy people to support this — 100 have already paid full price and another 170 have put down deposits.
THANKS BEN FOR THE TIP!
Source: The Washington Post Image: The Washington Post
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YES…Now that the space shuttle program has ended, the race to build the first sst that will deliver hardware and passengers to low earth orbit can begin in earnest.It’s gonna take a colaboration between nasa,the airlines and the aircraft manufactorers.