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I'm surprised they're getting it off the ground that fast, and $200,000 is a steal compared to what the Russians are charging. Besides, I've read that the $200,000 is slated to be cut almost in half after a year or two, and they plan weekly flights. I wouldn't be surprised to see that drop to the $50,000-$100,000 range by 2012. Hell, I might make it into space one day.
I'm wondering how fast they'll get SpaceShipThree up and running at this rate. I'd imagine it's a whole different level of difficulty to do an orbital flight, but I imagine people would pay more too.
They've already named the first two SpaceShipTwos. The first is the Enterprise, which I love and am extremely glad they did, and the second is the Spirit of Steve Fossett (changed from Voyager). There will be I think five or six of the ships total, the others aren't named yet. I just hope they don't sell the naming rights to corporations. No one wants to get into space on the Tampax Dream.
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