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Forums - General - UK to Roll-Out "Skylon" SPACE Plane by 2020!! (Space Tourism not far away!

darthdevidem01 said:
MrT-Tar said:

do want, but I probably won't have anywhere near the amount of money needed...

The Virgin Galactic one is going to cost $10,000 per ticket

so around £6000 for me

Believe it or not I started saving up for it a year back!

sorry to disappoint you but it is $200,000.
http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/

had an eye one this skylon plane for about a month maybe a bit longer now. bbc had an article on it saying that they recieved funding from esa a month or so ago. but I was under the impression it would be used for thing like building space stations, or for building ships to go to mars. guess once the tech is developed it wouldn't be to hard to switch to commercial uses.

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9009pc said:
darthdevidem01 said:
MrT-Tar said:

do want, but I probably won't have anywhere near the amount of money needed...

The Virgin Galactic one is going to cost $10,000 per ticket

so around £6000 for me

Believe it or not I started saving up for it a year back!

sorry to disappoint you but it is $200,000.
http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/






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darthdevidem01 said:
9009pc said:
darthdevidem01 said:
MrT-Tar said:

do want, but I probably won't have anywhere near the amount of money needed...

The Virgin Galactic one is going to cost $10,000 per ticket

so around £6000 for me

Believe it or not I started saving up for it a year back!

sorry to disappoint you but it is $200,000.
http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/




think they are just making the first costumers pay for the vehicles give it a few years I think I read it could come down to about $20,000 maybe less if someone offers competition.



correct me if I am wrong
stop me if I am bias
I love a good civilised debate (but only if we can learn something).

 

darthdevidem01 said:
9009pc said:
darthdevidem01 said:
MrT-Tar said:

do want, but I probably won't have anywhere near the amount of money needed...

The Virgin Galactic one is going to cost $10,000 per ticket

so around £6000 for me

Believe it or not I started saving up for it a year back!

sorry to disappoint you but it is $200,000.
http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/




Got my seat booked. :)



10.000 would have been really cheap..



 

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Why are we talking about colonizing? Who would want to live on another planet when you've got the most beautiful and luxurious planet in the galaxy? Think about it, if you were sent out to live on another planet you would go apeshit. I don't even think you could get used to living on another planet because you know in the back of your mind that Earth is where humans belong. There are no real planetary resources for humans to naturally colonize without shipments from Earth but if your getting shipments from Earth then ohhh...why not just never leave. Humans need to get over themselves and stop claiming/colonizing everything in sight.

On Topic - This sounds like a cool idea but if there's only one ship that can carry only 24 passengers then only about 0.01% of the population will ever get outside of space by the year 2030. But it's a step in the right direction as far as tourism goes and I can't wait to see where it leads to.