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newlaunches.com - 12/2/2008
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Most of us wish to travel first class on long flights, few are lucky enough to enjoy company expense accounts that afford these luxuries. So the question then is would you buy three tickets to the same destination at varying prices? Mr. Per Wimmer, who runs investment bank Wimmer Financial, is ...
dailymail.co.uk - 12/2/2008
One small price for man: City banker pays £50,000 to become world's first 'affordable' space tourist
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dailymail.co.uk —
A banker is set to become the world's
first 'affordable' space tourist. Per Wimmer will tomorrow be
announced as the first customer of private space tourism company Xcor.
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One small price for man: City banker pays £50,000 to ...
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CrunchDeals: 30-minute space flight for $74,000
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... 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 Xcor, I will become the first affordable space tourist.”
Daily Mail [via Newlaunches]
