Richard Branson Plans Orbital Spaceships For Virgin Galactic

Velcroman1 writes "Following the historic first rocket-powered flight of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, Virgin Galactic plans to build a fleet of spaceships and begin ferrying hundreds of tourists into space in 2014. And then? A whole new kind of spacecraft, Sir Richard Branson said. 'We'll be building orbital spaceships after that,' Branson told Fox News Tuesday, 'so that people who want to go for a week or two can.' Assuming the cost is on the same scale, would you pay a few hundred grand for a few weeks in orbit?"

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Re:$200K ... Uh Oh.

[AuralityKev]

I wonder if you work for Virgin if they give you discounts? You know, like the airlines do with normal flights? That would be a hell of an incentive and may just gather the greatest nerdforce in history.

Re:$200K ... Uh Oh.

[h4rr4r]

So trip to orbit includes free drugs? Sign me up!

Re:$200K ... Uh Oh.

[Mente]

No Air, no Air Miles. Its in the fine print.

Unless you want to kill off 90% of the worlds

[tekrat]

You wrote:
"Unless you want to kill off 90% of the worlds population..."

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter...

Any good ideas in this direction? It would solve so many problems, unemployment, high real-estate prices, traffic, hunger, poverty, ease of netfame/tv appearances, distribution of resources, global warming, and hopefully, get rid of all the stupid people.

Re:$200K ... Uh Oh.

[GoodNewsJimDotCom]

You get no air miles when there is no air.