By 2030 travellers will jet the world on a 13,750 mph spaceship!A Formula One motor racing tycoon has teamed up with an airline to develop a spaceship that could mean every city on the planet is just two hours away.
India Force co-owner Michiel Mol and Dutch airline KLM this week will announce the first British space tourist to buy a £60,000 ticket for sub-orbital flights in 2014. They expect to have scheduled commercial space journeys in operation within 15 to 20 years.
Mr Mol, a 42-year-old Dutch millionaire, said: "Being able to travel from London to Sydney in an hour and 45 minutes, that is the future. I think there will millions of people who would prefer to be in Sydney in a little more than one and a half hours rather than 24 hours."
(On the picture: Michiel Mol, right, with his spacecraft which he hopes will be a commercial operation in 20 years)
His first generation spaceship, the Lynx, will travel at 2,200 mph and he predicts it will be capable of flying four times day and doing 5,000 flights with one engine.
The spacecraft, currently being built by the Californian company XCOR Aerospace, will be unveiled next spring. 35 space tourists have already bought tickets for the flights from the Caribbean island of Curacao. Passengers will have to a minor physical test before allowed to travel. They can call themselves astronauts if they reach an altitude of 62 miles.
Mr Mol told the Sunday Times that ticket prices will be comparable to the £6,200 cost of the cheapest seats on Concorde before it ended flights in 2003.
The first Briton to buy a ticket is Anton Kriel who appeared on the BBC TV programme Million Dollar Traders. He told the paper: "I will be an astronaut. I will no longer have to listen to people who brag about their new Aston Martin."
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