posted 10-21-2005 09:32 AM               

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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.

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Have I missed something, or has the cost of a suborbital ticket just dropped by half without the first passenger even flying?

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