Space....the suborbital frontier

[vinylrake]

In case anyone is planning on going into space on one of those Virgin Galactic flights and is interested to know what your spacecraft will look like:
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... night.html

[Frumius]

You would not get me into one of those things! I mean, I'd take a tour on the ground, but no way am I heading into the stratosphere or beyond in that!

[Baak]

C'mon, Frum - seats are only $200,000 each! We're talking bargain!

Can you believe 200 people have already booked? Yowza. An awful lot of "funny money" floating around these days...

[sillek]

Virgin ? How did they get from music to making space shuttles ?

[vinylrake]

Well they did "transition" once from music to the Virgin Atlantic airline. And this current leap from normal atmospheric flight to sub-orbital flight seems less of a stretch than going from making records(cds) to flying airplanes.