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Article: Indians can soon tour space with Virgin Galactic

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October 16, 2007
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New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- It's time for all adventure tourism enthusiasts to don a spacesuit as Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, a global commercial space tourism group, Tuesday entered the Indian market with an eye to woo Indians into space - albeit at a fee of $200,000.

Virgin Galactic, in collaboration with Deluxe Travel and G.D. Goenka World Travel, has opened its India office in New Delhi and will act as a facilitator for Indians to book tickets to space.

The spaceship will be launched at a height 50,000 feet above earth and on release from the mother flight it will take a vertical trajectory at three times the speed of sound.

Carolyn Wincer, head of astronaut sales of Virgin Galactic, ...

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