Space travel: the ultimate luxury trip

Tuesday, 03 Jun, 2012 0

Talk about luxury travel: more than 450 passengers have booked a $200,000 flight to space, coming up with $20,000 deposits.

"I pinch myself that I’m able to sell space travel," said San Francisco travel agent Lynda Turley Garrett Garrett who booked some of the trips.

She is one of five accredited space agents in the Bay Area who can sell trips aboard Virgin Galactic, which has been testing rocket flights for two spacecraft with an indefinite lift-off, though Garrett says the first trip could be within a year or so.

The price tag also includes access to visit the spaceport in New Mexico, where the ships are being built, and a meeting with Virgin’s long-time boss, Richard Branson..

To become an agent booking clients for the 2.5-hour trip to space, Garrett had to apply to become a contractor, an accredited Virtuoso travel agent and show she could sell luxury travel and that she had a passion for galactic tourism, according to Bay City News Service.

By David Wilkening



 

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