Space Tourism is Off and Running

Posted by michael on Tuesday October 5, 2004 @05:41AM from the seven-up-up-and-away dept.

ackthpt writes "The ink wasn't even dry on the Ansari X Prize check, after Brian Binnie piloted SpaceShipOne into space, when deals were already being made. Announced last week, Richard Branson of Virgin Group would be licensing the technology, and according to p2pnet is already embarking on plans to build a fleet of 5 passenger carrying craft. Space tourism? Preposterous! It'll take years, decades. Isn't that the consensus? According to The Australian Cadbury/Schweppes may be giving away a the prize of a space flight under the cap of your next bottle of 7 Up: 'Within hours, one of SpaceShipOne's sponsors and the "official beverage" of the AnsariX Prize, the soft drink 7Up, announced it would be offering the first free ticket into space.' Further, 'another company, Space Adventures, has already collected $US10,000 deposits from about 100 customers for its planned flights, which will cost less than $US100,000.' Last one into space is a rotten egg!"

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Re:This is a good thing. by Kehvarl · 2004-10-05 07:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That's because "China" sounds like "Poland"
Obligatory shuttle disaster joke by dhclab49 · 2004-10-05 07:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why did NASA chose Sprite as the official soft drink of the Space Shuttle Columbia?

Because they couldn't get seven up!