Commercial space flight (12 photos)

Commercial suborbital flights will begin in 2010. It is time to order tickets!

For those who do not mind spending the extra money for a trip into space and those who are simply interested in this topic, there is news - the US Virgin Galactic plans to start commercial space flights in 2010 and presented the designs of spacecraft that will carry out the flights. In the photo you can see SpaceShipTwo, which is actually a spaceship, and White Knight Two - aircraft SpaceShipTwo that will raise a sufficient height to run. SpaceShipTwo will be able to accommodate 8 people - two pilots and six passengers, each of which is laid out for the flight of 200 thousand. Dollars. Wishes not take long to wait: 200 people have already ordered and paid for his future suborbital flight.
Himself spacecraft is almost fully ready and testing will begin in the second half of this year, and the plane is ready SpaceShipTwo is 60%. The flights will be carried from the spaceport Spaceport America.





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