Over $200,000 a ticket for private flight to see space
Pre-flight operations at Virgin Galactic in New Mexico, US, November 11, 2020. AFP/Quinn Tucker/Files WASHINGTON: Some 600 individuals have already purchased tickets price $200,000 to $250,000 for private flights on Virgin Galactic — the corporate based by British billionaire Richard Branson — to see space. And 1000's extra are on a ready record! Virgin Galactic, in addition to Blue Origin, are the 2 corporations constructing spacecraft able to sending private purchasers on suborbital flights to the sting of space lasting a number of minutes. The primarily rich first-time space travellers are preparing to participate in considered one of a number of private missions which can be getting ready to launch. The period of space tourism is on the horizon 60 years after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin grew to become the primary individual in space. Glenn King is the director of spaceflight coaching on the National Aerospace Training and Research Center (NASTAR), a private firm primarily based in Pennsylvania which has already educated almost 400 future Virgin Galactic passengers for their journeys. "The oldest person I trained was 88 years old," King instructed AFP. The coaching program lasts two days — a morning of classroom instruction and assessments in a centrifuge. This includes placing the trainee in a single-seat cockpit on the finish of a 25-foot-long (eight-meter-long) arm and spinning them round to simulate gravitational pressure, or G pressure. Read the full article