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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: The goal is not tourism rather a high speed suborbital transport mode for everybody Mon Dec 16, 2013 9:21 pm | |
| Budget space flights are being planned from the Canary Islands using an Airbus A300 plane attached to a space shuttle.
Swiss Space Systems (S3), a European group of companies, is hoping to "democratise access to space" by launching flights from a base outside a beach resort on Gran Canaria.
Maspalomas is a popular tourist destination, best known for its golden sand dunes, bars and foam-party discos. But with first flights beginning in 2020, visitors may soon be able to indulge their inner-astronaut here too.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/airbus-plus-space-shuttle-budget-space-flights-planned-20131217-2zi2l.html#ixzz2nh8srh00 |
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