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Article: SPACE
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- March 23, 2007
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Montgomery's Cassis Travel Services in Los Angeles is one of only
a few dozen travel agencies in North America offering suborbital
trips to the edge of space, where tourists can experience a few
minutes of weightlessness.
The travel packages cost $200,000 each for trips through
billionaire businessman Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space
venture.
Cassis' status as an approved seller of these trips puts the
agency in the vanguard of what may become a growing and evolving
niche of the leisure industry.
"I think we're on the edge of a whole new era of air travel,"
Montgomery said.
Virgin Galactic awarded the exclusive right to sell the trips in
North America to the Virtuoso luxury travel ...