WhiteKnight Two Unveiled, Would You Pay $200,000 To Go To Space?

Boston (dbTechno) – Space is truly turning into the ultimate over-the-top tourist destination. Just yesterday, Virgin Galactic founder Sir RIchard Branson, along with his team of designers showcased the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft, which will help launch the tourist spaceship.

The WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft was unveiled to the public on Monday evening at the Mojave Air Space.

WhiteKnightTwo will have the job of carrying the tourist spaceshipi up to an altitude of 50,000 feet.

Once it reaches that point, the SpaceShipTwo will launch, already full of space tourists.

WhiteKnightTwo has been nicknamed Eve, after the mother of Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic.

Virgin Galactic has stated that SpaceShipTwo is about 70% complete, as they expect to have the first passenger tourist flights in just a few years.

The price tag is expected to be $200,000. So with that, would you do it? If you had the money, would you hop in a spaceship, which was on top of a plane, and go blasting off into space?

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