Aussie woman over the moon about leaving Earth

[NM]

from news.com.au:

THE first Australian woman bound for space might have had a sense of her own destiny 40 years ago when she wagged school to watch Neil Armstrong's moon landing.

Glenys Ambe, who has bought a ticket on Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spaceship, resembled a giddy schoolgirl today as she sat and watched a simulated flight of the aircraft.

 

[Grooba]

$69,350 per minute in space for 4 minutes...

Not all that bad if you have the money to burn.

 

[samh004]

It's not even space, on the news they said it would go to where she couldn't feel the Earth's gravitational pull anymore, which is incorrect. Even the ISS feels gravitational pull, sure it's very little, but it's still there.

 

[anat0l]

I wonder what kinds of Velocity benefits you could get for flying in space? Or, would your DJ Gold or Silver get you anything else?

Perhaps...lets see...say $70000. Let's be "stingy" and say 5 points per $ spent. That's 350000 points. But come on, this isn't Economy! Add a generous loading - say +50%, which is the same as First on many carriers. Now that's 525000 points. That's DJ Gold 10 times over, and goodness only knows how many DJ redemptions that translates to (actually, I think that's only one EK F one-way award with a decent left over, but that's it....)

If they calculated it on mileage that would kind of suck...even if they changed the units to altitude or added a loading due to altitude, that'd still suck.

Note: VS also offer Virgin Galactic flights for a cool 2 million Flying Club points. Catch though: all the 2 million points must be obtained on VS flights only.

OK I'll be quiet now

 

[NM]

It's not even space, on the news they said it would go to where she couldn't feel the Earth's gravitational pull anymore, which is incorrect. Even the ISS feels gravitational pull, sure it's very little, but it's still there.

Indeed it would not orbit if there was not gravitational force

 

[Keith009]

Cute headline.