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Soon, Space Club: Galactic Tourism (also, the sweetest job on the planet)

Virgin Galactic launches space tourism: Commercial flights into outer space start in 2008. It will cost $200,000 for the trip, which includes five minutes of weightlessness (that’s $40,000 per minute). Lots of people are interested in going up (no joke). Interesting bits in the article on the topic:

  • Only 450 humans have been in outer space
  • 4000 pilots applied for the 75 jobs available to steer the space craft. Oh man would that not be the sweetest job on the planet? “By day, I pilot space craft. By night … “

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