Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide sub-orbital spaceflights to the paying public. Further in the future Virgin Galactic plans to offer orbital spaceflights as well.

Virgin Galactic's mission is to fly passengers who are not professional astronauts to an altitude slightly over 100 kilometers (62 miles) and allow them to experience weightlessness for up to 6 minutes.

Although seats on the first flights have been sold at a premium (starting at $200,000.00 for the first 100) after the first 500 passengers, seats will be booked with a deposit of US $20,000.00.

According to Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn, the company had sold nearly 200 seats as of November 2007.The first passenger flight is planned for 2010.

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• Galactic
• Space
• Travel

[pixartist]

Thank you virgin, may other companies follow in your footsteps

[jaja7657]

this people. . . .this is the begining of something big. Far larger than we can comprehend. Im an engineer and im busy designing a docking station, something similar to an airport but for suborbital flight craft.

[Kcon83]

Why can't they do it for a couple of a hundred quid :-/

[8262908]

truly amazing

[Apollosnebula]

Well I'm impressed. If this works I will take my hat off to Sir Richard

[vyrukas2]

5:00 :DDDDDDDDD

[MiguelDaugherty]

This company is a front of David Icke. He is an actor who should be in jail for terrorism. Thousands now know who he is.

[1rebelblood]

i rather pay for a week of fun with some hookers in germany then pay that much for less then a day.

[juki0h]

screw the government! we dont need them to go to space!

[cm79ca]

what happened to the 2010 launch date??

[SpudMcKinzy]

They need to find a way to dock with a "INS Virgin Hotel". You would have the oppertunity to stay for day's rather than minets. Oh and it's 2 hundreded thousand a seat and 50,000 a day!

That would be 1.1 million for one week for two people! What an Idea.........Thair's a lot of Lotto winners out there!

[RsHaCkZoR]

$20million ?!!!!!!! jesus christ thats alot :o