Space tourist in Earth touchdown
Maybe we can ask an expert: Branson unveils Virgin spaceship
On account of how he's now gonna save the planet. Here's what Grist had to say about it: Branson with the stars. They were obviously thinking of different ones to me.
Maybe I'll enter that show to win a trip, and insist on using the train. Bet it all gets covered by the media. Big news. Big dilemma.
Late News (kinda proving my point above):
This from the Indy: Two million air miles will buy you a ticket into space.
I was going to take the paper (of all papers) to task for ignoring the enviromental consequences, but it seems that it's all covered:
"A sub-orbital space flight will give a clear view of the curvature of the Earth and the thinness of the atmosphere, an experience that Sir Richard hopes will turn more people on to environmental activism."
Plus...
"The entrepreneur, who last week said he would plough $3bn of the Virgin group's profits into the development of green fuels, hopes SpaceShipTwo will have practically no carbon dioxide emissions.
"When Nasa ships take off, the amount of energy they give out could power New York, but today we have to come up with all the new technologies to make sure this is a green spaceship," he said."
I look forward to hearing about these, as I hadn't heard of them to date.
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