Friday, December 12, 2008

Helpful Travel Planning Websites






Here are ten useful travel sites from the "10 Links A Day" website.
Just in time to book your holiday travel at the last minute:
  1. iloho
    Travel news, flight reviews, networking and more.

  2. trivago
    Hotel Reviews & price comparison

  3. Go Street Maps
    Street maps from around the world

  4. Planeteye.com
    PlanetEye is a one-stop destination for all your travel planning needs.

  5. Uptake.com
    Your first step to a great trip.

  6. skyscanner
    Cheap flights, low cost air travel, flight deals, budget airline tickets

  7. Couch Surfing
    Participate in Creating a Better World, One Couch At A Time

  8. geckogo!
    Travel Planning made fun

  9. Spotted by Locals/
    Experience cities like a local

  10. 10 Links a Day
    Previous Travel 2.0 post - bonus - more links!

Friday, December 5, 2008

A Trip To Space? Check Out RocketShip Tours

Want to experience a "Personal Journey To The Edge Of Space"? Then hop aboard the suborbital spacecraft ( built by Xcor Aerospace). The owner of RocketShip Tours Jules Klar...and Retired Colonel Richard Searfoss (the firm's pilot who has flown 3 missions for NASA for a total of 39 days in space), are working together along with Xcor Aerospace to provide the more adventourous traveler a quite affordable option to space travel than the one offered currently by their nearest competitor, Virgin Galactic. Per Wimmer, of extreme adventurer fame (tandom skydived over Mount Everest), has signed on as the first passenger.

Your travel ticket "To The Edge Of Space" is $95,000 (considerably less expensive then Virgin's $200,000 price tag). Here is what is offered for the price of a ticket according to Rocket Ship Tours Manager of Media Relations "RJ" Watters III:

1. Your trip is one(1) hour from start to finish.

2. You reach approximately 200,000 feet in altitude.

3. You will achieve weightlessness.

4. You are in space for roughly 5 minutes.

5. You will see the curvature of the Earth, the Grand Canyon, the U.S. pacific coastline as well as a good part of the United States of America.

6. Test flights begin in 2010 and actual flights in 2011.

7. The launch pad is located in Mojave, California.


8. Xcor Aerospace developed the engine that will be used and on October 1st, 2008 set a record for most flights of a rocket-powered aircraft in one day which was seven (7).



RocketShip Tours Pilot, Col. Richard Searfoss (Retired)





RocketShip Tours Flight Overview (source: Youtube.com)





Xcor Aerospace CNBC Press Release (source: Youtube.com)






Per Wimmer, first passenger (on Left) and Jules Klar, Owner of RocketShip Tours display facsimile ticket







RJ Watters III, Manager of Media Relations, RocketShip Tours