Company Virgin Galactic has submitted in New-York the vessel for suborbital flights. SpaceShipTwo will be able to take aboard about 8 person, two pilots and 6 passengers, informs BBC News.

According to representatives of Virgin Galactic, construction of SpaceShipTwo is partially completed and will be ended by 2010. Thus edition This Is London asserts, that test flights of the ship be started already this June, and commercial - 12 months later after tests.

Flight of SpaceShipTwo will last for two hours. Four a half minutes of them passengers will be in full imponderability. Launch of the flying device will be made from a board of plane-carrier WhiteKnightTwo.

Cost of the ticket for flight in SpaceShipTwo will make 200 thousand dollars. In Virgin Galactic say that 200 people have already expressed their desire, and 85 thousand were interested in an opportunity of such flight.

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