To the Moon, Alice!

Posted on September 29, 2006

…but it will cost you $190,000 and you’ll have to wait ’til 2009. Sir Richard Branson showed off a mockup of his Virgin Galactic space ship yesterday. To be launched from the New Mexico desert, the craft, based on the design of Burt Rutan’s Spaceship One, will carry six passengers into sub-orbital space. Not “to the moon” yet, but a start. Pass the pretzels (if you can catch them).

Popular Science has a good piece on it. But check out Virgin Galactic’s web site, a visual treat.