Scottish agency to sell Virgin Galactic
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Dream Escape has become the only agent in Scotland to be appointed to sell $200,000 space trips by Virgin Galactic.
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The Edinburgh-based company has received five enquiries since being appointed last month as one of around only 140 agents worldwide qualified to sell tickets to space.
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The date for the first public space flight by the Virgin Group’s space travel arm has yet to be confirmed although it is thought to be in a number of years time.
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The first commercial manned spaceship flight took place last October 2010 from the Mojave desert in the US.
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Deposits for the space flights cost $20,000 which gives prospective space tourists access to aspects of the project as it progresses.
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This includes ‘astronaut forums’ with Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson on his Caribbean island home or his South African game reserve to opportunities to tour Mojave or Spaceport America.
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Selected Dream Escape employees have received in-depth training by Virgin Galactic to assist with space flight