Virgin Galactic, owned by Sir Richard Branson, are one of the first companies intending to make space travel accessible to the public. The company have seen a big increase in the demand for the tickets for flights to space, the first of which will be taking place later this year. The company, who completed its first test flight in 2018, said it had received almost 8,000 registrations of interest for future commercial flights!

Things to talk about at home…

• The cost to travel on Virgin Galactic are nearly £200,000 per ticket and there is a waiting list! Are you surprised that people are wanting to spend so much money on travelling to space?

• If you were given the opportunity to travel into space, would you want to go? Talk about your reasons why.

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