Virgin Galactic space flights coming for $200,000

Richard Branson’s dreams are coming true . . . again. The king of fun and amazing travel adventures unveiled a model of his new spaceship today and announced that the testing of Virgin Galactic suborbital flights would begin this year. Stephen Hawking is one of 150 passengers already signed up at $200,000 a seat to take a space trip.Read “Virgin’s Branson unveils passenger spaceship model” to find out which celebrities have bought tickets, who’s designing the suborbital ship for Virgin Galactic and who Branson’s competitors are in the commercial space race.

Do you know anyone who has signed up for a space trip? If you had the $200k, would you?

— Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel Deal Blogger

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