OUTTA THIS WORLD!!

I was reading about this in the Daily Mail today... " Virgin Galactic to Offer Public Space Flights". Can you believe it? And they want to start sending people out soon - like in a few years! The new service will be called Virgin Galactic and expects to fly 3,000 new astronauts within five years. Fares will start at 115,000 pounds (US$208,000) for a suborbital flight, including three days' training. Branson (the British entrepreneur) said the business would "allow every country in the world to have their own astronauts rather than the privileged few." "Virgin Galactic will be run as a business, but a business with the sole purpose of making space travel more and more affordable," Branson said.
He told the news conference: "We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensation of weightlessness. " Right on! Ready, set, Jetsons!