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• Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group that will offer sub-orbital and orbital spaceflights to the paying public beginning in 2009.

  Flights currently are priced at $200,000.

  Early flights will launch from the Mojave Spaceport in California. Later flights will start from Spaceport America in New Mexico once that is operational.

  Work on the construction of Spaceport Amercian started in June 2009, and will be completed in early 2011.

• Fast Facts

  1. Prototype Spacecrafts: SpaceShipTwo, White Knight Two
  2. Spaceport: Spaceport America
  3. Flight Personnel: Steve Johnson, Alistair Hoy, David MacKay
  4. Partnered with NASA for astronaut training
  5. Cost of space ticket: $200,000
  6. Selling tickets since 2005
  7. • Founders (First 100)
     : $200,000
  8. • Pioneers (First 1,000)
     : $100,000 - $175,000
  9. • Voyagers
     : $20,000
  10. Each flight will carry 6 passengers and 2 pilots
  11. Flights scheduled to take place once per week
  12. Flights preceded by 3 days of onsite training at Spaceport America
  13. Pre-flight medical checks required
  14. Flight lasts approximately 2 1/2 hours
  15. Reservations: Via online form at Virgin Galactic website
  16. Branson offered William Shatner a free ride on the inaugural space launch; Shatner declined the invitation
  17. • EADS Astrium
  18. • Rocketplane Limited, Inc.
  19. • Space Adventures
  20. • Benson Space Company
  21. • XCOR Aerospace

• Related Mahalo Pages

  Spaceport America | Virgin America | Virgin | Richard Branson | Space Tourism | NASA | SpaceX | XCOR Aerospace | XCOR Lynx | Virgin Galactic Sex in Space | Richard Garriott

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