Virgin Galactic has almost done it, in 2011 or 2012 for just $200,000 (£122,000), you can experience something that only only 450 people in the world have ever done, that's including all the Russians, all the Chinese and all the Americans put together, gone into space,
'This will be the start of commercial space travel,' Virgin founder and billionaire Sir Richard Branson said at the launch in California's Mojave Desert, 'You become an astronaut.' the $450million (£274million) project would see a fleet of six commercial spaceships rocket passengers to the edge of space,
a twin-hulled aircraft named Eve would carry SpaceShipTwo to an altitude of about 60,000 feet (18,288m) before releasing it, the spaceship would then fire its on board rocket engines, which would thrust it to about 65 miles (104 km) above Earth, the trip would take only two and a half hours and give passengers about five minutes of weightlessness, would I like a seat? you bet!
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