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Ben Riecken
 

Ben Riecken is a flight instructor. He is no stranger to challenges. He holds an aviation record and crossed recently the North Atlantic with a student in a small general aviation aircraft. His next challenge? Fly in space onboard SpaceShipTwo with Virgin Galactic.
     
     
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  Virgin Galactic is the leader in space tourism with the unveiling in 2007 of SpaceShipTwo that will carry six passengers and two pilots in space for a ticket price of $200,000 per passenger.
     
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On July 21, 2004, the world witnessed Burt Rutan and his team successfully launched Mike Melvill onboard SpaceShipOne at an altitude of 328,000 feet paving the road for space tourism.

The following year, Richard Branson and Burt Rutan announce to the world their intentions to commence an affordable space program to form Spaceship Company. Five spacecrafts and two motherships are currently under construction. The new spacecraft named SpaceShipTwo will carry six astronaut passengers and two pilots into sub orbit above the Californian desert. SpaceShipTwo is currently under the final stage of production and should be soon unveiled to the world with flight tests likely to start in 2007.

I had the pleasure to be invited by Brian Binnie, SpaceShipOne astronaut, after his successful flight. Please read my first diary entry on my experience to fly SpaceShipOne simulator. What a thrill! 

 
 
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