John Carmack To Cut Space Tourism Prices 50%

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like John Carmack, through Armadillo Aerospace, will be battling Burt Rutan and Richard Branson to make space travel affordable. From the article: 'Space Adventures is going to use an Armadillo Technologies rocket to launch amateur astronauts 62 miles into the sky. Nothing new, except that they will do it at half the price of Virgin Galactic's ticket, and in a real rocket!' Perhaps I'll visit space, after all."

Comments

There's a catch...

[__aaclcg7560]

You're paying for a one-way ticket to go up into space. Coming down from space will be free.

Re:There's a catch...

[TheRaven64]

Hush, don't spoil their business model. The ticket is one way... but when you get into space they'll sell you a return ticket. If you don't want one, they'll let you get out and walk home.

Re:Slingshot?

[TheRaven64]

An integer rocket.

Re:Just a thought

[Tumbleweed]

Doesn't Mark Shuttleworth feel like a sucker now?

A quick name change to Mark Rocketworth will change that, no prob.