If you had £120 000 would you fly into space?

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I fI heard it correctly on BBC breakfast news,Virgin Galactic are due to launch their first commercial flight into space,120 grand for 2 hours 60 miles up. It will no doubt be one hell of an experience,but its also one hell of a price.
 
If someone gave me 120k and said do what you want with it - no. More important things to do with the money.

If I had 120k to burn (won the lottery, debt free etc) then sure.

As a slight aside I love that Branson has said he's already offered Stephen Hawking one of the first seats.
 
Nope, there are several places I'd far rather go without having to leave the planet! I'm slightly claustrophobic too - it's not a problem with conventional flights, even in light aircraft - but I don't know how well I'd cope with something like this.
 
neil_g said:
If someone gave me 120k and said do what you want with it - no. More important things to do with the money.

If I had 120k to burn (won the lottery, debt free etc) then sure.

As a slight aside I love that Branson has said he's already offered Stephen Hawking one of the first seats.
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:agree: only if I had the money to burn then just try stopping me.
 
YES, YES, and YES

were do sign up? oh hang on a min im about £119,980 short! can any one sort me out a sub?
 
Yes if I had a lot more than the £120K in the first place, I'd be in like a shot and taking my camera with me too. No if it was about all I'd got, lots of things would have to come first. But it would be one hell of a rush to go.
 
Yes, if i was to win the euro millions then I would. but there would be a lot of things higher on list (like my own Spitfire)
 
If I won the euro millions, but my other main argument is it's not technically space that space ship one is going to is it :D
 
That's be the very last thing I'd spend money on.
 
Not a chance. I'm sure I read somewhere that Justin Bieber is doing it so i'd rather not risk being in the seat next to him.

If I was given £120k and told to spend it on fun things for myself then i'd be off diving in various corners of the world but the space thing doesn't do it for me.
 
No, I'd give the wife a treat (as in a seat on the space ship)! ;)
 
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Julie1979 said:
Not a chance. I'm sure I read somewhere that Justin Bieber is doing it so i'd rather not risk being in the seat next to him.
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I'd go if he was definitely going to be on the flight and each seat had an ejection button.

I think it's be a bit of an anti climax , you'd be weightless but it's not like you're getting to do a Gravity (the movie) style space walk or a couple of days on the ISS
 
Julie1979 said:
Not a chance. I'm sure I read somewhere that Justin Bieber is doing it so i'd rather not risk being in the seat next to him.

If I was given £120k and told to spend it on fun things for myself then i'd be off diving in various corners of the world but the space thing doesn't do it for me.
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You could spend the £120k on a hitman to kill Justin Bieber??!!
 
I'd think sitting next to him would be cool, I could puke all over him, well worth the £120k.
 
cambsno said:
Yes, if i was to win the euro millions then I would. but there would be a lot of things higher on list (like my own Spitfire)
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Get in the queue behind me for the spit!
 
only if they had a space elevator :D
 
Probably. Hopefully with this private investment starting to advance space exploration again after decades of stagnation it'll become cheaper and more accessible in my lifetime to get up and do a few orbits.

120k is a bargain compared to a proper space tourist trip to the ISS!
 
Hazza said:
You could spend the £120k on a hitman to kill Justin Bieber??!!
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according to last months edition of 'Practical assassin' magazine ,they have already said they will do him for free,so you get your ticket and be a part of a murder conspiracy.
 
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