NEW YORK, December 7 - Virgin Galactic, a U.S. space tourism company, will show the public on Monday its first commercial space vehicle. The space plane holds 6 people at a time and is called SpaceShipTwo.
The showing ceremony, will be held at the Mojave Spaceport in California.
During a demonstration flight, a mother ship is expected to bring SpaceShipTwo 15 kilometers up into the air.
The first customers are expected to start flying aboard the space plane in 2011, paying $200,000 for a seat.
A total of 300 people across the world have booked tickets for flights on the space plane.
Another 85,000 people have filed flight applications on the agency's website.
For $200,000, the space plane will take the passengers to a height of 68.3 miles. The flight will take 2.5 hours with a five-minute period of weightlessness, when passengers will be able to release themselves from their seats and float around the cabin.
The Virgin Galactic plans to operate a fleet of five of these space planes.
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