all those PanAm spaceflight tickets that were sold in the 60's. If I had the cash I would do it just for the PR alone ;) Ahh, those were the days, for those of us old enough to remember them...........

all the space stewardesses in mod outfits and Velcro shoes.

I thought the only passenger on a Pan-Am spaceflight, (sic) was the bloke in 2001, a Space Oddity. Then Pam-Am went bust! Try selling your ticket on eBay.

"Virgin Galactic has not yet set a date for when passengers will get a ride"

Nor has Virgin Media set a rip-off date for Phorm. I hope the fly-ware goes better than the spy-ware.

Beware the bearded-one looking over your shoulder!

Ah, but he later fell to earth. Problems with global warming or something.

Either that, or the cosmic ray storm will rip a hole in the fabric of space-time and fling them down onto a parallel of Earth where everything is really really huge.

Or they'll end up flung into the future where everyone has very hairy faces and... umm...

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/967381431-00.gif

I'm sure there will be several test flights before Branson and family fly in it.

It's "Jungle Planet X Camoflage Uniform".

I guess it wouldn't sell tickets if it were called what it actually is, which is "Virgin quite high in the atmosphere-ic."

Perhaps Branson would be the first to perform an extra vehicular tropospheric walk for us... no, that would be too much to hope for.

he was kinda cool, but now the Phorm thing is bad bad bad.

This space thing, wasn't this to do with the winner of his Yanky program; the futon guy.

Well I am still waiting for the space elevator, but I have noticed no one is really taking space seriously, there are tons of resources out, we could strip mine mars, and the lack of friction may make it cheaper than shipping.

Whatever you say about Branson or Virgin Galactic or any of the problems (it's suborbital, it's only 5 minutes of zero-g, it's retardedly expensive) associated with it, you have to admit that the idea of being able to buy a flight into space is INDESCRIBABLY AWESOME!

Lets hope they fit it with good tracking devices as we dont want another 10 Steve Fossetts do we?

Saying that though, space would make the Nevada Desert look like a village green...

Is anyone still looking for that guy by the way or his is missus too busy spending his billions?

Hopefully that beardy prick will be on it when it does a challenger replay.

The ultrarich are paying for the stuff now so that we get the benefits later - whatever cool tech stuff comes out of this enterprise. Look what NASA did for the world in the way of improved electronics etc.

"Lets hope they fit it with good tracking devices as we dont want another 10 Steve Fossetts do we?

Saying that though, space would make the Nevada Desert look like a village green...

Is anyone still looking for that guy by the way or his is missus too busy spending his billions?" ..... By pctechxp Posted Sunday 27th July 2008 20:14 GMT

Here is some further "expert" news on that speculation, pctechxp .... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2462912/Adventurer-Steve-Fossett-may-have-faked-his-own-death.html

The one that goes - three spacemen go up the the first rocket but when it return there is only one person left - an amalgam of all three - with very strange alien abilities.

Aargh don't tell me any more! Bransonia!!

Has been declared dead and the search operation terminated.

"Virgin Galactic people unveil plans to fling rich tools into space" ?

.. slow down to 5mph after 30 minutes of flight?

‘Virgin Galactic to unveil tool to fling rich people into space’

...unfortunately tho' - i think they intend to bring them back again

I do hope they get this rocket working smoother than their train service. Although at $200K the pricing is similar.

oh dear..

"Once it breaks free, SpaceShipTwo will fire its rockets and take six passengers on a 2 1/2 hour ride into the Earth's thermosphere."

Perhaps one might like to think about that statement! Isn't it the whole journey from start to finich is 2.5 Hrs? and after a 2+ hour ascent, SpaceShipTwo is released fires its rocket for say 2-3 minutes and then plummets like a ballistic projectile in a timeframe which is likely to be far less than that stated! go ask a red devil!

...the headline meant Branson would personally be doing the flinging of folks into space, but it turns out it's a different sort of tool they will be using.

In order:-

Disposable Nappies (Diapers)

Non-Stick Pans.

EOM

which rich people get flung?

I have alist...

I nominate "The Golgafrincham D-Ark (Celebrity)" as its terribly important for the entertainments to be ready when the rest of teh arks arrives (I vote Posh and Becks on the first flight!)

...let's get the Telephone Sanitation Engineers flung up there (one-way) while we still have the chance.

>Scaled Composites, now owned by Northrop Grumman Corp is currently appealing a $28,870 state fine for workplace violations in connection with the explosion.

3 dead and 3 seriously injured, total fine $28,870

Jeez you gotta love the capitalist system when thats the best they can do :(

Oh and lay off us Telephone Sanitation Engineers you lot, we provide a vital service. Surely better to fill it with the TV execs who bring us the endless reality tripe. Actually, we could turn it into a show, ' Im a Golgafrincham Celebrity, get me off this planet'

Think I will TM that one just in case :)

.....who with the mention of the word "flung", pictured a giant catapult throwing rich people high into the air?