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Topic: Price drops?
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DavidH Member Posts: 1217 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 10-21-2005 09:32 AM
quote: BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man has paid $100,000 (56,306 pounds) for a 90-minute voyage that will make him China's first tourist in space, the China Daily said on Friday.Jiang Fang, president of a Hong Kong company that acts as the China agent for U.S.-based space tourism firm Space Adventures, would experience zero gravity on one of the company's sub-orbital flights due for launch in 2007, the China Daily said.
http://tinyurl.com/cup7n Have I missed something, or has the cost of a suborbital ticket just dropped by half without the first passenger even flying? ------------------ http://allthese worlds.hatbag.net/space.php "America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow." - Commander Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Mission, 11 December 1972 [This message has been edited by DavidH (edited October 21, 2005).] | |
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