One small price for man: City banker pays £50,000 to become world's first 'affordable' space tourist

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Banker pays $74k to be the first economy space tourist
Published 12/2/2008 at Newlaunches.com
... the first flight to space. . Mr. Wimmer has booked with Virgin Galactic, Space Adventures and Xcor to make this historical flight, believing in that age old miserly saying "why buy one when you can buy three for three times the price." That's not all; he is set to be the first economy class space tourist who will pay $74,000 just for half an hour in space. The first space tourist paid an approx $21 million for his flight in 2001; it's nice to see the economies of scale in action. Source

CrunchDeals: 30-minute space flight for $74,000
Published 12/2/2008 by Doug Aamoth at CrunchGear
A London banker named Per Wimmer will be taking a 30-minute space ride in XCOR’s “Lynx” two-seat suborbital space plane (see our previous coverage) in 2010. Los Angeles-based XCOR is offering relatively affordable space trips at around $74,000 a pop. Wimmer has also purchased tickets on Virgin Galactic’s and Space Adventures’ first flights –also set to take off in 2010. Those tickets are about 50% and 25% more expensive, respectively, than XCOR’s. Says Wimmer, “It will be a real race to see which of them goes up first - but if it is ...