Space tourism: Is it finally a reality?

Space tourism: Is it finally a reality? Virgin Galactic could begin flying tourists into space as early as this year, following major engineering redesigns after the death of a test pilot in 2014, Bloomberg reports. Some 700 customers have already signed up for the ride, each paying USD 250k for a 90-minute flight where a carrier aircraft will take the Virgin Galactic spacecraft up 45k feet, before the spacecraft fires its rockets to blast off into suborbital space.