Monday, October 25, 2004

"Space...The Financed Frontier"

From IMDb:
Shatner Wants To Boldly Go Into Space

Former Star Trek actor William Shatner is preparing to make a real-life trip away from planet Earth, after signing up to take a Virgin Galactic flight into space. The Canadian actor and rocker Dave Navarro are among more than 7,000 people who want to fly on Virgin's proposed commercial space flights, says company chief Richard Branson. The three-and-a-half hour flights - which will include six minutes of weightlessness - will cost passengers $210,000 each. Branson, who announced the plans last month, says of the huge response, "We are extremely pleased because it just means in a sense that the gamble we took seems to have paid off." His company is hoping to offer the flights by 2008.

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