Space travel for us mere, if moneyed, mortals is on the horizon, and with the help of Protravel International's office in Ada, you can book what many adventurers might call the last unexplored universe.
Virgin Galactic is one of the first companies to sell suborbital space travel.
Virgin's specially designed spacecraft, about the size of a large business jet, will carry six passengers and two pilots. The entire flight, which will last about 2 1/2 hours, begins with rocketing to about 50,000 feet, approximately the cruising altitude of the Concorde) where the SpaceShipTwo SS2 will be released from its mother ship. The SS2 then fires her rockets and accelerates into a vertical climb reaching a speed three times the speed of sound, according to a story on the program in NI magazine.
Once it reaches 360,888 feet, or 68 miles, it slows to a coast and amateur astronauts experience zero gravity, aka weightlessness, for about five minutes, and can see a 1,000-mile horizon view of Earth.
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