Virgin Galactic has unveilled WhiteKnight Two, at the Civilian Aerospace Test Center in the Mojave desert, California, USA.
WhiteKnight Two has been designed to take adventurous tourists into suborbital space and will be ready for its first passengers in 2010. Apparently 200 adventurers have already signed up for WhiteKnight Two's maiden flight, including the Branson family. If you want to join them, expect to pay around $200,000 for a return ticket.
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Space Adventures are offering tourists trips around the moon for $100 million per person; presumably travel insurance will be a little higher than the cost of the average sea cruise.
The lucky vacationers will begin their adventure by being launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. It is proposed that the spacecraft will then rendezvous in low-Earth-orbit with a booster rocket, which will propel the craft to the moon.
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