On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:41:00 -0700, Alex Terrell
wrote:

On 14 Jun, 00:32, Rick Jones wrote:
Alex Terrell wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6749873.stm
The cabin looks like it has room for 10 people.

Seems they are only claiming four:

Astrium says there will be room for four passengers on each
mission. Towards the top of the climb, these individuals will
be able to float free in the cabin and look through large
windows at the planet below.

But if you look at how much space they have - its what you'd expect if
you spend 200,000 dollars.

How about if you spend $40,000, could you fly across the Atlantic in
an hour, with 10 in the cabin?

You could do it, along with 100 others, in a little over 3 hours for
less than US$4000 .... and still wearing ordinary clothing.

But that was 30 years ago and things have progressed since then.

No floating around though but you can experience that, albeit short
term, for almost next to nothing now.


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