EADS Space Tourism

Are you one of the millions who have dreamed of traveling into space since you were a kid?

Well, if so you will soon be in luck. That is if you have an extra $260,000 dollars laying around to shell out for a ticket.

For your money you will get a swift one and one half hour ride that will take you over 100 KM above the earth. That will place you in space outside the earth’s amosphere. You will experience about three to four minutes of weightlessness as you reach the highest altitude level of your flight.

The European aerospace giant EADS is going to build the space vehicle and manage the flight. The space vehicle will takeoff from a regular airport using normal jet engines and reach an altitude of 12 KM before a rocket engine will take over and blast the space craft vertically to a height of 100 KM.

Once the rocket engine kicks in it will only take about 80 seconds to reach space at the maximum altitude of 100 KM.

That should be quite a ride. If it’s one you want to take you had best make reservations early.

While the first journey into space isn’t expected to occur until 2012 that’s only five years away. Since the vehicle will only hold four passengers a trip your deposit should be made early or you may find yourself in a long queuqe of folks eager to spend $260,000 for a 90 minute ride.

Obviously space travel will not be for the masses for quite a long while.

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