Maverick billionaire Richard Branson is a man who likes to live on the edge. In the case of Virgin Galactic, he is
looking for a few brave, and rich, souls to join him. Branson has tied up with Burt Rutan, the developer of the
award winning SpaceShipOne space craft, to design re-usable space vehicles
based upon the SpaceShipOne design. According to a short piece in
Popular Science, $190,000 will buy you “a week of preflight
training and a three hour vertical cruise complete with three minutes of weightlessness.” Pilots from some of Virgin’s
other airlines will be trained to fly the space craft, starting with the VSS Enterprise by the end of 2007.