First Commercial Space Tourism Company

uberdave writes "The Canadian Arrow team (one of the contenders for the Ansari X-Prize) has joined forces with Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria, a leading American entrepreneur, to form a new corporation called Planetspace. The goal of the company is to make space flight available to the public within 24 months. Geoff Sheerin, President of Canadian Arrow, says that Planetspace has entered final discussions with partners who will establish a reality television show set in space, and with a company to hold an international lottery with space flight prizes. Planetspace expects to fly almost 2,000 new astronauts in the first five years of flying. Fares will start at USD $250,000 for a suborbital flight, including fourteen days training."

Comments

Re:Whatabout?

[AnObfuscator]

Well, Virgin Galactic may be the first company *founded*, but this will be the first one to *operate*, if all goes as planned.

Re:Richard Branson

[taskforce]

Actually no, he's sold the various different areas of the company off bit by bit and they are no longer owned by him or related at all except for branding.

Re:What about Virgin?

[oniony]

Virgin Galactic was founded sometime last year.

http://www.virgingalactic.com/en/

Re:What about Virgin?

[DerekLyons]

This may be interesting, but these guys are definately not the first.

Virgin Galactic was founded sometime last year.

And MirCorp (who organized Tito's flight) sometime quite before that.

Re:not extensible

[uberdave]

They've done engine tests, and capsule recovery tests, and they've got plenty of signs of flight hardware. It was recently touring Chicago. These are not photoshopped pictures. The rocket is a real thing. I've seen it.