From MSNBC.COM:

Virgin Galactic plans space flights by 2008

Celebrities, royalty among the first 150 passengers to buy tickets

FARNBOROUGH, England - Former soap star Victoria Principal, designer Philippe Starck and a senior member of an unidentified royal family have all bought tickets for the world’s first tourist space flights planned for 2008.

Virgin Group, owned by billionaire businessman and part-time daredevil Richard Branson, said on Monday it was on track to launch the sub-orbital flights for the year after next and had sold tickets to its first 150 passengers.

Its commercial spaceline, called Virgin Galactic, said in a news conference at the Farnborough International Airshow near London that it had collected $15.6 million in deposits for the flights which cost $200,000 per ticket.

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