MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Virgin Galactic almost ready for passengers. Citizen space travel is due to start next year. You'll need $20,000 to hold your place; suborbital tickets will cost upward of $200,000. Next up (they say): SpacshipThree flights from London to Melbourne, via space in about two hours. I’ll believe the second part when I see it. But it's cool and I describe much of this (and more) inExistence. One of the better sides of a new Gilded Age.
As Virgin Galactic gets closer to becoming the world's first commercial space line, Playboy is eagerly pondering the creation of the ultimate intergalactic entertainment destination. Zero gravity dance floor...and sights out of this world at the new Two Hundred Mile High Club.