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Tickets for the space flight of the space travel company, Virgin Galactic are already on sale from this Thursday. The starting price is $ 450,000 the seat.
Virgin CEO Michael Colglazier was excited to announce “the reopening of sales” and said people on the list of wait will have priority.
“As we strive to bring the wonder of space to a broad global population, we are happy to open the doors to a completely new industry and consumer experience ”
This information was released just weeks after the trip to space of the billionaire and founder of this company, Richard Branson. This was last 11 July in a Virgin Galactic’s rocket, and it did so by soaring above 80 miles over the New Mexico desert.
This Branson flight became a milestone, as it is the first flight, in history, to space with a crew. And that he returned safely is a feat for a company that barely has 17 Years in the space travel business.
Virgin Galactic obtained approval to take people into space, last June from the US government, through the regulatory department of aviation safety.
For those who decide to travel to space with Virgin Galactic you will have several options and prices to choose the trip :
- An individual seat.
- A multi-seat package.
- A package with which you buy the entire flight.
This It is not the first time that Virgin Galactic has sold tickets to go to space, the first time was in 2005 and then in 2014, at that time they were sold at half price now between $ 200, 000 and $ 250, 000 Dollars.
For the first trips, when the price was half of what it costs now, they booked some 600 people.
Doubling the price of tickets to space this time is due, in the first place, to the success of the trip of Branson a month ago And then due to the overheads of a fully crewed space trip that were quite high.
In fact, the second quarter of that year the company reported losses of $ 94 millions of dollars. The company’s income reports were $ 571, 000 Dollars. Almost what it costs to seat a seat during a flight.
The next test flight is scheduled for the month of September and will have as a crew to members of the Italian air force. While the first commercial flights are estimated for the third quarter of the year 2022.
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