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First Indian space tourist gearing to take off

 
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:29 pm    Post subject: First Indian space tourist gearing to take off Reply with quote

Kochi: Taking tourism to greater heights, Santosh George Kulangara, a Keralite, is all set to become the first Indian space tourist. Santosh, the Managing Director of Labour India Publications, and producer of 'Sancharam', a popular weekly travel programme being aired on a Malayalam television channel, has travelled to nearly 50 countries in the past 10 years filming exciting new destinations for his viewers.

"This is a dream come true," Santosh said. He would be flying on board the Virgin Galetic's space ship, a venture of Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic. "They have given confirmed registration number of 38 for undertaking the journey," he said.

During the registration, he had made a payment of $20,000 (about Rs nine lakh). The whole process took him two years. The contract was signed on February 26 this year.

The flight charges are roughly around Rs 90 lakh and are likely to be scaled down further, he said.

Santosh said in 2004, he heard about the Virgin Galetic space flights when it conducted three trials. He contacted Virgin Galetic to say he was interested and was asked to wait. When he again contacted them in August last year, they took in his registration and sent him the terms and conditions and the flight charges.

The date of the journey has not yet been fixed.

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Best of luck..Santosh!!!..

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Exactly! All the Best!!! Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting.
Any link to this proposed flight by RB.
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