I like Richard Branson because he knows how to use his billions of dollars wisely. If I had that much money I would be researching space travel myself. Alas, I don't even have a fraction of the $200,000 that Virgin Galactic is charging for a flight into space, but 500 other people have already booked their ticket... lucky bums. This year Virgin Galactic plan suborbital tests of SpaceShipTwo, the first of the five ships in their fleet, designed by Scaled Composites. They have already conducted 31 test flights inside Earth's atmosphere, some attached to a carrier aircraft named WhiteKnightTwo, and other glide tests. They hope to start testing their rocket motors later this year, and the plan is to offer commercial flights by 2013 or 2014. Time to start saving if you want to see the Earth against the backdrop of space and join the 68 mile high club.
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