WildWings Space Adventures Press Release

Press Release 18th June 2004

Private enterprise is about to go to Space!

21st June 2004 14.30 B.S.T.

Last week it was announced that the first private sub-orbital space flights scheduled for this coming Monday. With the financial backing of Paul Allen, Burt Rutan, founder of Scaled Composites, plans to fly his reusable launch vehicle, SpaceShipOne, into sub-orbital space. Upon separation from it’s carrier aircraft (White Knight) at 50,000 feet, SpaceShipOne will use its single rocket to thrust itself to 100 kilometers (62 miles) above the Mojave Desert in California and after three minutes in weightlessness, SpaceShipOne will then return to Earth. This historic event will be the first space flight flown by a spaceship entirely built and financed privately.

WildWings have been taking advance bookings for Sub-Orbital Space Flights since 1997, current retail price £57,000 with a booking deposit of £6000. (All advance payments are protected by a Trust Account.) The first British booking for a commercial space flight was made by Dr Madsen Pirie in April 1998.

In the weeks following the first flight, it is projected that SpaceShipOne will make it’s X-PRIZE flight attempts, and John Brodie-Good will personally escort WildWing’s currently signed –up, pioneering Sub-Orbital clients to witness one of these flights, whilst they continue to await their own ascent towards the stars.

Note: CNN are due to show the flight live!

WildWings Travel (ATOL 5429/ABTA/AITO)

Tel 0117 9658 333

E-mail: space@wildwings.co.uk

Contact: John Brodie-Good

www.scaled.com

			WildWings Space Adventures Press Release
	Private enterprise is about to go to Space!