Space tourism to start in 2011 - from Usa, in 2012 from Kiruna, Sweden. Almost 300 trips already sold !

Vesmirna turistika, 2011. Skoro 300 listku jiz prodano. The flights at $200 000, EU153 000 will be run by Virgin Galactic, owned by British tycoon Sir Richard Branson, which will first send paying customers around 110 kilometres (70 miles) above the earth from New Mexico in the United States, Spacesport Sweden spokeswoman Johanna Bergstroem-Roos told AFP.

"We hope Kiruna will become Europe's main launch pad for the tourist flights," Bergstroem-Roos said, pointing out that the town located some 145 kilometres (90 miles) north of the Arctic Circle has been home to the Esrange Space Centre since 1966.

"The suborbital flights that will be sent up with tourists are the kinds of flights we already run from Kiruna, although we today send crewless flights much higher up, to 800 kilometres," she said.

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