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Living SMARTER
INSIDE 70 MONEY
Bet on Yourself . . .
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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f $200,000 seems like too steep a fare for a we add, terror — before the planned descent.
seat on one of Sir Richard Branson’s future The most remarkable feature of the Armadillo
Virgin Galactic fl ights into space, you may spacecraft is that it’s basically a bubble, allow-
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soon be able to book a suborbital thrill for about ing a 360-degree view of space and planet Earth.
Shot Into
half that. Armadillo Aerospace, a private com- But will it even fl y? Well, the state of New Mexi-
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pany in New Mexico, has partnered with the co, which is in on the deal, and from where the
Space
nascent Rocket Racing League to build a small space bubbles would launch, seems to think
fl eet of capsules that would take tourists — two so. They say a fl ying prototype could be ready
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at a time — on rocket-powered fl ights about 62 in about a year. We’re not standing in line yet.
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miles above Earth. Each adventure would include But for those who can’t wait to board the bub-
GE C several minutes of weightlessness — and, might ble, we say be sure to bring an air-sickness bag.
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