Virgin Galactic has in the American state of New Mexico, say that the first commercial lwa le ruimtevliegveld opened. The company will flights offer in which customers to great heights able to gewichteloosheid to experience.
It comes to commercial flights, for which customers can buy a ticket. This is Virgin Galactic to say the first company worldwide, where consumers ruimtetickets can buy. The company of Richard Branson used to the flights of his own device, which is from the now open ruimtevliegveld will leave.
With the ruimtevliegtuig reach customers an altitude of about 100 kilometers, and then they take a few minutes gewichteloosheid can experience. There are also three flights for NASA organised, with scientific equipment on board. This pays for the organisation 4.5 million dollars to Virgin Galactic.
The flights will be offered with Virgins SpaceShipTwo, a futuristic vehicle that a short time ago a manned test flight was made. The unit can with Mach 3.5 to fly, about 4300 miles per hour.
The opening of the ruimtevliegveld is the next step towards the first commercial space flights. Virgin Galactic would have already hundreds of maps à $ 200,000 per unit sold and the first private astronauts can be expected to be Virgin ceo Richard Branson within 18 months of their flight.
