A photo Open Source George Whiteside – Virgin CEO Galactic, organizing private space tourism, said the other day that a new ship for these purposes will be tested this year.
At the same time, Whiteside emphasized that the new space the carrier for tourists will become much more perfect than the previous one, who crashed during the test. All the flaws of the previous ships were identified and taken into account during the construction of a new apparatus. Recall that the first space tourist ship exploded in resulting in the death of one of the pilots, the second, however, managed catapult. An investigation is still underway on this occasion. by the US NSTB (National Transportation Council security), however, George even did not mention.
The most interesting thing is that, despite the disaster the first spacecraft for tourists, not one of them (who already paid for such entertainment in space) did not refuse this insane undertaking. Recall that the cost of excursions to the near-Earth the orbit is now about two hundred to three hundred thousand dollars, and recorded on this space walk, as George himself assures Whiteside, no less than a thousand people.
It is also not interesting to learn that once upon a question of journalists, is George Whiteside going to go to such a space journey, the head of Virgin Galacti evasively answered: certainly, but not among the pioneers.
