Commercial Space Travel

Sir Richard Branson, billionaire owner of the Virgin Group, has taken one more step towards commercial space travel. Virgin Galactic, whose mission is “to fly passengers who are not professional astronauts to an altitude slightly over 100 kilometers (62 mi) and allow them to experience weightlessness for up to 6 minutes,” today introduced a model for the spacecraft at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The engine will be Canadian built, and seats upon “SpaceShipTwo” (great name) will cost about $200,000 apiece. Quite a deal for the budget traveler. Regardless, in the event of such a journey, I can say without hyperbole that there is only one man I would want sitting next to me on the ride up…

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