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Originally Posted by island911
Can you explain the draw to this $200k joy ride?
I mean this is hardly space travel. ...the mother ship (a jet) takes you to 50,000ft, drops, and the rocket pushes you up another 20k ft.
For perspective, the google exec guy went about twice as high in a balloon ... and then jumped out.
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I don't understand that interest to get up to 70,000 feet for 5 minutes at the price of $200,000! It's not like going into orbit. Big deal! I once took a Concorde flight from New York to London at 56,000 feet with Mach 2 and 1 price of $1,200.-. They even served a great 1st class meal to boot!