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Old 07-17-2006, 07:00 PM
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Default $200,000 Space Flight Tickets For Sale

Virgin Group, owned by billionaire businessman and part-time daredevil Richard Branson, said Monday it was on track to launch the world's first tourist space flights in 2008 and has sold tickets to its first 150 passengers.

The commercial spaceline, called Virgin Galactic, said in a news conference at the Farnborough International Airshow near London that it had collected $15.6 million in deposits for the flights which cost $200,000 a ticket...
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Quite a feat for Sir Richard, but not beyond him.
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Yeah I heard about this on the news about a year ago. Now I know all the details. Thanks for posting this.
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