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Space Tourism Blasting Off in 2011

Trips will cost $200k

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 19, 2009 2:46 AM CDT

(Newser) – For those bored with mere earthly trips, help is on the way. The first space tourist flights will take off in 2011 from New Mexico, reports AFP. For $200,000, an outfit run by British tycoon Richard Branson will fly tourists 70 miles above earth and then, presumably, back. Flights will begin leaving from Sweden in 2012. Branson’s Virgin Galactic has lined up five Nordic travel agencies for ticket orders, and 300 brave (and rich) souls have signed up so far.


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Your next destination?   (©pato_garza)
Space, the final tourist frontier.
Space, the final tourist frontier.   (AP Photo/NASA/JPL )
Well-heeled tourists will soon get to see outer space up close and personal on Vrigin Galactic.
Well-heeled tourists will soon get to see outer space up close and personal on Vrigin Galactic.   (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Johnny Horne)
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