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Space tourism to take flight in 2012


(AFP) – Mar 18, 2009

STOCKHOLM (AFP) — Short tourist flights into space are expected to begin launching from northern Sweden in 2012, one of the companies involved in the project said Wednesday.


"We expect that the first tourist flights leaving from the United States around 2011 and that Kiruna (in northern Sweden) next about a year later, in 2012," Spacesport Sweden spokeswoman Johanna Bergstroem-Roos told AFP.
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The flights by Virgin Galactic, owned by British tycoon Sir Richard Branson, which paying customers around 110 kilometres (70 miles) above the earth from New Mexico in the United States.
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Virgin Galactic said Tuesday it had signed up five Nordic travel agencies that to sell tickets for both the US and the Swedish launches, which 200,000 dollars (153,000 euros) apiece to begin with, although the price over time.
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"We hope Kiruna Europe's main launch pad for the tourist flights," Bergstroem-Roos said, pointing out that the town located some 145 kilometres (90 miles) north of the Arctic Circle has been home to the Esrange Space Centre since 1966.

"The suborbital flights that with tourists are the kinds of flights we already run from Kiruna, although we today send crewless flights much higher up, to 800 kilometres," she said.

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"We expect that if one person in a family that comes up here wants to fly into space, maybe the other family members for other experiences," Bergstroem-Roos said.

Nearly 300 tickets have already been sold for the short tourist space flights, she said, adding that while Danes, Finns and Swedes were among the purchasers, most of the existing ticket-holders would not want to wait for the Kiruna launches to begin and would choose to fly from the United States.

"Most people want to be first," she said.
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