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20k Down Can Get You Up Into Space

Posted by timothy on from the bad-credit-no-credit-come-on-down dept.

TheOzz writes "Virgin Galactic announced this week that space tourism will be a reality by 2008. The company is already taking $20,000 deposits for the estimated $200,000 seats on their new spaceships. You can reserve your seat today at the Virgin Galactic web site. The Virgin Group's Branson teamed up with SpaceShipOne builder Burt Rutan to form The Spaceship Company that will build these new commercial spaceships. They are building 9-person spaceships that will carry 7 paying passengers and two crew members, according to space.com. They report that test flights should start in 2007."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Title misleading by mukund · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The title of the story "20k Down Can Get You Up Into Space" is misleading as it takes $200,000 to buy a seat. The $20k is just a deposit.

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