British man Steve Bennett hopes to run flights into space by 2013
British man Steve Bennett hopes to run flights into space by 2013
A British man hopes to run tourist flights into space by 2013 with his company Starchaser. Steve Bennett hopes to test his latest spacecraft next September and then build a bigger rocket to take passengers into space.
Bennett said: "Our [Starchaser's] ultimate aim...is to carry people into space and our latest rocket takes us another step closer to that ambition." The plan is to offer 20-minute flights, during which passengers would experience three or four minutes of weightlessness
Bennett from Hyde, in the
north of England plans to test his three-seater rocket, Nova 2 in September 2009. If that goes to plan he will build another rocket that could take tourists 62 miles into space, at speeds of 3,500mph.
According to The Telegraph, flights into space with Bennett would cost up to £100,000, taking off from a site in
America. Bennett has reportedly already bought a 20-acre site in New Mexico, which he hopes to develop into a space port.
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2 July 2008
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