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John Carmack To Cut Space Tourism Prices 50%

Posted by samzenpus on from the everything-must-go-to-space-sale dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Half of 200k is still 100k by brouski · · Score: 1, Troll

    Actually, no, it looks like you've just had a rash of shitty misogynistic opinions lately. Hey, maybe they make hormone therapy for that!

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  2. Re:It ain't space below 7km/s by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 0, Troll

    He wasn't. U.S. just desperately needed something for its propaganda campaign to counter Gagarin's flight, and sooner rather than later - it couldn't admit that it was lagging that far behind.