Coming Soon: Space Tourism

BBC News: Space tourism is less than three years away, Sir Richard Branson has claimed.
There are already 13,500 potential passengers for the £100,000 ($190,000) “Virgin Galactic spaceliner” trip, Sir Richard told the BBC.
The entrepreneur is having five “spaceliners” built in the US by the team which launched the SpaceShipOne rocket plane last year.
Sir Richard said he himself, his children and his parents all plan to be on the first flight.
The Virgin Atlantic airline boss told the BBC’s Breakfast with Frost the space travel plan “is an extremely exciting project”.
He signed a £14m agreement last September with Mojave Ventures, the company set up by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aviation pioneer Burton Rutan.
Mojave Ventures plans to use the technology developed for SpaceShipOne – the first privately-developed carrier to go above 100km last June.
Virgin boss unveils space trips [BBC News]