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).
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 Flight Overview (source: Youtube.com)
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