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Branson's Virgin Galactic to sell space flight tickets starting at $450,000

Published 08/05/2021, 05:42 PM
Updated 08/05/2021, 05:45 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson wears his astronaut's wings at a news conference, after flying with a crew in Virgin Galactic's passenger rocket plane VSS Unity to the edge of space at Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New

(Reuters) - Spaceship company Virgin Galactic said it will open ticket sales on Thursday for space flights starting at $450,000 a seat, weeks after billionaire founder Richard Branson's high-profile trip to the edge of space. Branson soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard a Virgin Galactic rocket plane on July 11 and safely returned in the vehicle's first fully crewed test flight to space, a symbolic milestone for a venture he started 17 years ago.

Shares of the company rose 5% in extended trading on Thursday.

In June, Virgin Galactic received approval from the U.S. aviation safety regulator to fly people to space.

The company said it will have three consumer offerings - a single seat, a multi-seat package and a full-flight buy out.

Sales will initially open to the company's significant list of "early hand-raisers", it said.

Latest comments

I 't hard to like the super wealthy... all this money to escape boredom for a few minutes... how about helping people in need? There are plenty...
shouldn't there be some sort of regulation on this? car emissions are regulated and it gets ppl from place to place for useful needs too. burning that much energy to get rich ppl to space for a nice view seems to be excessively pointless.... unless polluting to satisfy the need of rich is encouraged then I take back what I said.
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