Virgin Galactic announced the start of ticket sales for flights to space
The American company Virgin Galactic announced the start of sales of tickets for space flights, the price of which starts from 450 thousand dollars, RIA Novosti reports.
Space tourists are offered three options for purchasing seats in a spacecraft: a single seat, a “family package”, and a full redemption of the flight.
The flight of the Unity spacecraft is scheduled for late September. It is noted that the mission was paid for by the Italian Air Force.
The Unity ship was successfully launched on July 11th. There were four people on board, including the owner of the company, billionaire Richard Branson. The flight was broadcast online. Unity climbed to an altitude of more than 80 kilometers, and the crew felt weightlessness for several minutes. After that, the ship began to descend and landed at a private spaceport in New Mexico.
Virgin Galactic will also give away two space flight tickets in addition to the sale. Two people can become lucky – the winner of the drawing and his “plus one”. Applications for participation in the lottery will be accepted until September 1. In addition to space flight, Branson himself will conduct an excursion around the spaceport for the chosen one.
