Virgin space travel
Recently the Virgin boss, Sir Richard Branson has entered into an agreement with Mojave Aerospace Ventures, for around 14 million pounds which will see his company take passengers to the space, a Virgin space travel. Mojave Aerospace Ventures was setup by the Microsoft’s co –founder Paul Allen and aviation pioneer Burt Rutan. For this purpose, this British entrepreneur is having five space liners built by the expert team which made spaceship one. The California based space liner became the first privately developed carrier to go beyond 100 kilometers.
According to Richard Virgin space travel, it will cost you around one lakh pounds to go on a “Virgin Galactic” space liner and the first flight will began operating soon. He also says that if this project becomes a success, then he will soon also start orbital flights and even get a hotel up there.
This agreement allows Virgin to use Spaceship One technology. The space liner which is being built by Virgin will accommodate five passengers compared with the two passengers’ capacity offered by Spaceship One.
The vehicle will be well tested before beginning a scheduled space service. The space liner will take off from Mojave Desert which is near Los Angeles. Also the passengers will have to undergo a week’s training before they take off.
The virgin group is well known for its wide range of businesses like music, soft drinks, mobiles, holidays, cars, finance etc. However this business is completely different from the other normal ones. Thus it is more important for them to keep their reputation alive.
Virgin group also claims that its space technology, which releases a spaceship into the sun-orbit using a jet carrier aircraft, is much safer and is much environment friendly than conventional ground-launched rocket technology. Another difference is that, the parts of the space liner mainly consists of non metallic member and are light and hence require less power.
Virgin is not only the first private party which is trying to develop the concept of space travels in private sphere but also it will be the first to take passengers into space.
This space trip, which is being offered by Virgin, will be the most intense and wonderful experiences that people have ever had. Astronauts over the last many years have all returned to earth, struggling very hard to convey that enormity of what they had experienced and discovered. To be able to extend the privilege to ordinary people has been a long held ambition for Virgin, and is slowly becoming true. You won’t believe it, but till date around 200 tickets for “Virgin Galactic” are already sold.
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