Taking a vacation to space

[hepcat]

It's unlikely that you've heard of PJ King, despite the fact that he's about to set himself apart from most humans who've ever walked the planet. In as soon as 18 months, King could be launching into space as a paying commercial space tourist.

King, a 41-year-old Irish businessman, is one of hundreds of travelers who've signed up and trained to be among the first paying passengers aboard Virgin Galactic's trips to suborbital space -- 62 miles above the Earth.

"One of the reasons I'm doing this is precisely because I want these things to be ordinary," King said. "Part of the problem with space travel is that it is special."

King believes the $200,000 he and other passengers pay for a seat on a Virgin Galactic spacecraft will help create a new future when "flights like this are happening every week, when lots of people go, and the cost has been massively reduced due to the economics of scale."

Would love to take a trip to space but in a way I already did it when I was a freshman in college.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/10/15/space.tourism/index.html?hpt=C2

[Kitten Diver]

Yeah they are appently building those jetcrafts like crazy. I heard from a guy that builds racing planes that these trips are booked for the next few years..At 200K a ride it must be nice. Only last about an hour or so I hear

[hepcat]

Yeah they are appently building those jetcrafts like crazy. I heard from a guy that builds racing planes that these trips are booked for the next few years..At 200K a ride it must be nice. Only last about an hour or so I hear

Trip of a lifetime though

[Kitten Diver]

Trip of a lifetime though

No doubt about that

[Lumps]

$200,000?

I can go to space for about $15 much longer than an hour .

Being for real it is pretty fuging awesome, must be a real mind opener to see the world as a big blueberry. If I was rich, I wouldn't hesitate to make this trip.

[mmmbeans]

id do it in a second. hopefully in 30 or 40 years it'll be reasonably affordable, or I'll be wealthier.

[thefuzz]

I don't understand the desire to do this, but to each his own.

[hepcat]

I don't understand the desire to do this, but to each his own.

To see something absolutely fantastic that only a tiny fraction of humans that ever lived have seen?

[mmmbeans]

I don't understand the desire to do this, but to each his own.

yea well, you don't like jet skis.

[thefuzz]

To see something absolutely fantastic that only a tiny fraction of humans that ever lived have seen?

I do this every time I take a piss.

[neverlosethefeeling]

DMT. Talk about trip of a lifetime...