SpaceShipTwo Ticket Launch

Details, full story:

• Company: Virgin Galactic
• Sales so far: $13 million
• Number of people buying: 157
• Flight beginning date: 2009
• "Affordable" space tourism ticket cost: $200,000
• Length of flight: 2 hours
• Expected launch site: Mojave Desert, California
• Maxmimum flight altitude: 70 miles
• Duration of passenger weightlessness: 5 minutes
• Passengers expected in first 10 years of operations: 50,000
• Virgin Atlantic pilots invited to train as Virgin Galactic pilots: 700