had to http://www.virgingalactic.com/

hee sounds fun

Holy crap thats awesome... I thought it was going to take a few more years..

wow

I've never heard of this before now. Is it for real?

It's been in the works for a long time, but like Daganev, I didn't think they were actually that close to officially opening their doors to the public.

Can't see it having a huge market. $200,000 a trip

I believe there are over 1 million billionairs in the world. I'll have to go look that up.

edit:

Ok, I did a quick lookup. Forbes has 746 Billionairs listed in the world, and some other organization has 2,631,902 millionairs listed. I have a feeling that when they start offering rides, they will be on a regular schedule with full shuttles.

Billionaires? I have a tough time believing that.

Edit: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3713390.html

That says 793 billionaires.

heh odd, the forbes website only has 746. I guess the stockmarket went down today

But yeah, it was millionairs I was remembering.. it was some news blurb about millionairs hitting another million mark.

Ah, yeah, that doesn't surprise, a million dollars isn't what it used to be. But still, a $200,000 tour is expensive even for millionaires. I think I'll hold out and wait for the price to go down a little

The American version of who wants to be a millionaire must suck compared to the British one, now that I think about it.

Wth, is that for real?

I guess, start saving up

Gotta love the mother ship stuff

Nah. I'm gonna hold off until the prices go down. Sort of like how I'm holding off on getting an HDTV. Only it might take a little longer for the space trip to become affordable...

Just save your pennies from every purchase you make, and before you know it, you'll have 20 million pennies and you can go on the trip.

I wonder how much the flight from St. Petersburg to Florida was back in 1914...

This one? http://www.earlyaviators.com/ejannto2.htm

Oooh good find... now how much was $400 worth in 1914? I know in the 1950s 0.15 could get you a pizza and a coke which is about $6.00 now.

Assuming inflation is even that would be.... hmm my math say $32,000 for a flight that now costs about $60. The regular ticket was $10 which would be $800 dollars... so 800/60 would be... 13.333 which would make the $200,000 dollar flight it space cost $15,384 in about 90 years... Not bad at all!

That will most likely be on the low side, you are assuming that population/inflation won't keep increasing at an exponential rate.

This is of course also assuming that in 90 years the standard free market will even still be around in it's present form, which I doubt, at the rate we are using resources. Fortunately I plan to be dead before those 90 years are up.

...and no, that isn't morbid, it's realistic, not many people make it to 110.

Although I was just reading an article that the expected age in 50 years could push as high as 120 with new advancements in medical technology.