Not the 72 variety of virgin...
Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has announced his company has signed an agreement worth £14m to secure the first commercial flights into space. The deal with the US firm which owns the technology, could be worth millions over the next 15 years depending on the number of space vehicles built. Prices for each seat into space are expected to start at around £115,000. Sir Richard revealed the new venture at a briefing held on Monday at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London.
I suppose the Russians were really the first to offer a commercial space flight, but the price tag for the Virgin one is within reach of the middle-upper rich, the Russian one was the province of the insanely rich. |