Space Adventures is going to use an Armadillo Technologies rocket to launch amateur astronauts 100km into the sky. Nothing new, except that they will do it for half the price of Virgin Galactic’s ticket, and in a real rocket!
Not content with his first astronautic experience, Ex-Microsofter billionaire Charles Simonyi is now training for a second trip to the International Space Station in Spring 2009. Simonyi will be the first repeat Space Adventures customer since the company began sending private citizens into the final frontier in 2001.