With fares to, and dedicated travel information pages for, more than 450 destinations around the world, cheapflights.com is now offering its viewers the chance to travel beyond this world into space. Holidaymakers can book ahead for the opportunity to participate in some of the first tourist flights into space. Click on the letter ‘O’ and then ‘Outer Space’ in the cheapflights A-Z destination index.
For those with the willpower and the cash, $20,000,000 will buy viewers a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) with training at Russia’s Star Centre Space Facility (working knowledge of Russian required). However, for those prepared to wait a few years, the chance to fly on a sub-orbital trip (a flight to the edge of the earth’s atmosphere) is $50,000 per person.
By 2007 a flight that takes customers into orbit should be available at a price of £225,000. Week-long trips to the moon in 2011 are now bookable at $1,700,000 per person.
For more modest budgets cheapflights.com offers trips to Florida to visit the Kennedy Space Centre, with the possibility of watching a launch.
David Soskin, joint chief executive officer at cheapflights.com, said, “We are thrilled to add extra-terrestrial destinations to our site. Whilst these flights are not cheap at the moment, we expect the price to fall rapidly over the next few years, as technology improves. When bargains become available, cheapflights.com will be the place to find them!”.
Editor's Notes: Cheapflights.com, which was founded in 1996, is the most comprehensive online resource in the UK for researching cheap airfares. Its many destination pages also enable independent travellers to research and prepare every aspect of their trip.
In January 2001, cheapflights announced record traffic figures of 671,000 unique visitors and 6.5 million page impressions (source: Doubleclick Inc)
