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petak, 05.11.2010.

Kiwi administrator signs up for amplitude cruise

Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo carries the six-seater VSS Enterprise over Sir Richard Branson's spaceport in New Mexico.
New Zealand administrator Derek Handley is a allotment of added than 380 humans who accept paid a 10 per cent drop on their US$200,000 ($267,000) tickets for the aboriginal rides on Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic amplitude flights.
Asked why he active up, Handley told the El Paso Times: "Why wouldn't you? This is the future. Allotment of it is the allure of seeing the Earth from up there."In 2001, Handley founded Auckland adaptable business and media aggregation The Hyperfactory, with his brother Geoffrey Handley, and he is now based in New York administering its all-around cardinal growth, according to the company's website.
The Hyperfactory website said Handley was New Zealand's youngest managing administrator of a listed aggregation at the age of 22, if he led online antagonism and sports action aggregation Feverpitch to account on the New Zealand banal barter a decade ago.
"When not talking adaptable or media, Derek spends time cerebration about getting an astronaut," it said.
Handley, 32, said: "Two hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money, but I anticipate it's a fair amount for this activity experience".
He was speaking as the world's aboriginal bartering commuter spaceship confused a footfall afterpiece to takeoff, with Branson actualization a new aerodrome at his limited New Mexico spaceport, abreast the boondocks of Las Cruces area the Virgin Galactic activity is based.
The aperture of the US$212 actor spaceport was apparent by a flight of VSS Enterprise - the six-seat ability which is appointed to backpack paying barter into suborbital amplitude by aboriginal 2012 - aloft the new 3.2km long, 60m advanced runway, agitated by its mothership, WhiteKnightTwo.
The spaceship's berth is advised so that cartage can float in aught gravity.
Ultimately, as added tourists activate application the amplitude service, the amount will appear down, according to Sir Richard, who told Reuters there were four or 5 companies absorbed in Nasa's US$50 actor programme for developing commercial-crew spaceflight concepts, as allotment of President Barack Obama's bid to bolster abutment for clandestine amplitude companies.
He said Virgin Galactic was in discussions with two of the companies about teaming up and would adjudge over the next ages whether to do so or go it alone.
"We plan to be in alternate biking aural the next few years," he said.

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