Commercial Suborbital Flights Would Begin in 2010

For those who do not like to spend extra money to fly in space and those who are simply interested in this issue, there is news - American Virgin Galactic plans to start commercial flights into space as early as 2010, and submitted the design of spacecraft, which will carry out the flights . In the photo you can see SpaceShipTwo, which is the space shuttle itself, and the White Knight Two - aircraft, which would be sufficient to raise SpaceShipTwo to run high. SpaceShipTwo will be able to accommodate 8 people - two pilots and six passengers, each of whom will ultimately post for the flight of 200 thousand dollars.



Those who wish not long in coming: 200 people already managed to order and pay for their future suborbital flight. Sam spacecraft has been almost fully prepared and will begin testing in the second half of this year, as long as the aircraft is ready SpaceShipTwo by Spaceport America . The flights will be carried out from cosmoport Spaceport America.