Space Travel popular and soon a reality

Although it will remain limited to those with substantial amounts of money who are able to experience the travel anytime in the near future CNN reported that space travel for regular people to buy tickets for will occur soon. A maiden test flight for Richard Branson's company Virgin Galatic and its vehicle the VSS Enterprise was recently successful. It is a 60 foot rocket plane. The business plan is to start with just one flight per week with 6 people who will pay at least $200,000 to travel to space about 60,000 feet into the air. Those who travel will train for 3 days in advance. If that schedule were to be kept there would only be room for 300 people in the first year. However, incredibly despite the $200,000+ price tag per flight lasting just a matter of hours and only 300 people expected to take the first flight in its first full year of operation there are 80,000 people on the wait list. There will be further testing this year and next then they hope to begin the actual flights. They further hope to allow hundreds of thousands of people to eventually be able to afford Star Trek type traveling in space.