Billionaire Richard Branson, who is the founder of Virgin Galactic, which is part of the Virgin Group, told an audience at the Nordic Business Forum in Helsinki, Finland, that he is hopeful it will only be a few months until the company reaches its goal of spaceflight.
Business Insider reported that Branson says his private space program may be mere months away from making its first spaceflight. “We are hopefully about three months before we are in space, maybe six months before I’m in space,” Branson told the audience last week.
Branson’s Virgin Galactic plans to sell seats aboard the tourist flights to space for around $250,000 a ticket. Branson told The Telegraph back in April that Virgin Galactic would start taking passengers to space by the end of 2018.
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