Space Tourism Firm Raises Prices for Orbital Trips
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A U.S. space tourism firm has booked two multimillion-dollar seats to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard future Russian spacecraft, but ticket prices are going up.
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The aerospace company looks for commercial aviation turnaround to fuel growth.
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British airline magnate Richard Branson announced a hugely ambitious plan for the world's first commercial space flights, saying he would send &quot;thousands&quot; of fee-paying astronauts into orbit in the next five years.
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LOS ANGELES - Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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LONDON  -- British airline magnate Richard Branson announced a hugely ambitious plan for the world's first commercial space flights, saying he would send "thousands" of fee-paying astronauts into orbit in the next five years.       Branson, a flamboyant communicator and high-profile tycoon, said his Virgin Atlantic airline had signed a technology licensing deal with the US company behind SpaceShipOne, which in June became the first private manned craft to travel to space...
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MOJAVE, CALIF. -- A stubby private rocket plane blasted through Earth&#39;s atmosphere for a second time in a week yesterday, capturing a $10-million US prize meant to encourage space tourism.
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Amid rising use of online travel services, Cendant (Quote, Chart) will pay $1.25 billion in cash for Orbitz , the companies confirmed this morning.
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Online travel agency, which had one of the hottest IPO&#39;s of 2003, meets 12 cents per share target. CHICAGO  - Orbitz Inc.
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IAC/InterActiveCorp , owner of the online travel service Expedia.com, on Wednesday posted a sharp rise in third-quarter earnings, saying it kept marketing costs in check during the quarter to boost the bottom line.
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By Fred O. Williams  You lock into the seat, the cabin tilts to a 38-degree angle -- then comes the shudder and roar of ignition.  Call it space tourism for the masses, courtesy of Buffalo-based Delaware North Companies.
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Air France becomes the latest major airline to raise ticket prices in response to higher fuel costs.
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Some of the country&#39;s richest businessmen said yesterday they couldn&#39;t wait to splash their cash on the first commercial flights into orbit.
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Now that rocketmen in the desert have soared into space and captured the St. Louis-based Ansari X Prize, commercial space travel seems as close as ever.
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(Sept. 27) -- You could soon have an out of this world trip for the right price. Virgin Atlantic&#39;s Richard Branson announced Monday that his company has signed an agreement to start offering the world&#39;s first commercial flights into space.
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LOS ANGELES - Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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The dream of opening space to the general public was given a tremendous boost in 2004 with SpaceShipOne's prize-winning suborbital jaunt and congressional legislation to help establish a space travel industry in the United States. But even the biggest champions of commercial spaceflight acknowledge that a vital space tourism market is still years from becoming reality.
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Blog: Space Adventures says that the cost of a flight to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz rocket will go up as much as $20 million in the coming years because of inflation.