Post by Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe on May 12, 2005 23:49:39 GMT -6
AERA Announces Ticket Sales and Target Window for First Commercial Launch December 2006
Temecula CA (SPX) May 13, 2005
Following the release of the animated presentation of the Altairis Rocket and agreements with the United States Air Force, Florida Space Authority and Cape Canaveral, AERA Corp. announced Thursday a target date has been chosen for the first flight of a civilian crew into space and that it has begun ticket sales for future flights.
Altairis will lift off from Cape Canaveral beginning in December 2006. Tickets go on sale this morning.
"With our design completed and our agreements in place to use Cape Canaveral for launch, flight logistics and landing, we are now ready to begin ticket sales," said Bill Sprague, founder, president and chief scientist behind the Altairis Rocket.
Altairis is designed to comfortably launch six passenger astronauts and one mission commander into space and bring them safely back to earth.
The tickets for the first commercially available flights cost $250,000 and can be acquired by going to the AeraSpaceTours.com Web site and applying via the Web.
More here from Space Daily.com: www.spacedaily.com/news/tourism-05p.html
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Will this be the start of regular civilian space travel? This should be interesting to follow.
