Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has signed a £14m
agreement which will allow passengers to travel into
space.  Branson has commissioned five “spaceliners”
built in the US by the team behind the SpaceShipOne
vehicle.  The rocket plane will became the first
privately developed carrier to go above 100km in June
2005.  It will cost around £100,000 to go on a
“Virgin Galactic” spaceliner, and the first flights should
begin in about three years' time.

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