…a $200,000 price tag on zero gravity
Published: 24 January 2008 12:06 GMT
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Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (left) and Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan show off the final design for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at New York's American Museum of Natural History.
Members of the press, as well as special guests and about 100 of the 200 travellers who have reserved $200,000 seats aboard the craft - which aims to be the first commercial suborbital spacecraft for the private sector - were present for the unveiling of the design.
Construction of the actual SpaceShipTwo is nearly 60 per cent complete. Virgin Galactic hopes it will make its first flight in 2009. Final images and mock-ups have changed quite a bit from older designs, like these from 2006.
Photo credit: Caroline McCarthy/CNET News.com
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