500,000-mile Moon round-trip for £100million

Are you ready to go for a 500,000 miles Moon round trip for 'just' £100million?

Round trip to moon - are you ready? [photo: EPA / Daily Mail]

Well if you do, good news is that you can actually 'fly' to Moon for just £100million, as a British company is offering seats to adventurers willing to go the extra mile on a historic journey to the moon.

The first 500,000-mile round trip in a converted Soviet-era space station could take place as early as 2015.

Art Dula, founder and chief executive of Isle of Man-based Excalibur Almaz, told a space tourism meeting in London: 'We're ready to sell the tickets.'

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Microsoft Founder’s Rocket Plane Hybrid: One Giant Leap For Mankind

[ via Mashable ] 14 Dec

Tuesday’s announcement from Microsoft co-founder (and somewhat reclusive billionaire) Paul Allen of a $200 million company, Stratolaunch Systems, that will marry the designs of two of the space industry’s most important inventors: Burt Rutan and Elon Musk, is going to go down in history as a hallmark day.

Rutan is the creator of SpaceShipOne, the world’s first commercial spacecraft, which was launched from the top of a light aircraft called White Knight. The plane took care of those crucial first 30,000 feet of a launch, where Earth’s hold on us is hardest to break. This is how Virgin Galactic will be sending its first tourists to space in 2013.

But Allen's hybrid rocket plane — due this decade, larger than any aerial vehicle yet built, can put anything and anyone in orbit. The Stratolauch system will uesher ina revolution in travel to space by those who can afford it.

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