"This will be the start of commercial space tourism. You become an astronaut ", - said Branson during the presentation ship.
A project with a $ 450-million budget provides for the construction of six commercial spaceships, which will raise the tourist high enough so that they felt the weightlessness and see how rounded the earth's horizon, against the backdrop of outer space.
To do this, SpaceShipTwo will be delivered to an altitude of about 18,300 meters with aircraft Eve, where the spacecraft will separate and run their jet engines to climb to an altitude of about 100 kilometers above the Earth.
The flight will last about 2,5 hours, of which about five minutes, passengers spend in weightlessness.
Approximately 300 candidates have already booked their tickets for the flight cost $ 200,000 (135,000 euros), which would also require three days of training.
Branch Virgin Galactic owned airline Virgin Atlantic Airways British billionaire Richard Branson (Richard Branson).
Richard Branson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
SpaceShipTwo. Photo: AFP, David McNew / Getty Images.
