With 2 million points you can take a ride into space with Virgin Galactic

In the past year we have often been forced to stay in home, we canceled trips, gave up dinners and abused yeast to make bread at home.

Now you can shyly see some reopenings, thanks to the vaccination campaign going on as it should. If you are tired of staying at home and can't wait to break out the most far away possible to get some air, what could be better than a space travel ?

It will be possible thanks to Virgin Galactic. As the airline Virgin Atlantic, was founded by tycoon Richard Branson with the goal of being the first "galactic" company to offer tourist space flights, precisely in the Earth's atmosphere, at an altitude of about 90 km.

View from space aboard the Virgin Galactic Spaceflight

On board with 2,000,000 Virgin Points

The program Virgin Atlantic Frequent Flyer expands its offerings, in addition to Virgin's hotels, flights, gifts and partner services, you can now experience a trip to the space. For redeem it it will take the beauty of 2,000,000 Virgin Points.

Here's how to do it. First you need to book through the Flying Club, then put to provision points and later, when the flights are operational, it will be raffle the winner who will be able to redeem the prize trip with his or her miles, all others will be returned the points.

Among other things, the accumulated points must be exclusively from Virgin and cannot be cumulative with other partners, so forget about the points accumulated with your American Express...

Or, if we don't have that many points, we can purchase the trip cash, at the modest sum of 250,000 $ in pre-order, because in the future, Virgin announces, the figure is likely to be more high.

"Virgin Galactic is opening space to everyone through tourism and research. SpaceShipTwo can regularly transport people and payloads into space, which means scientists, engineers and educators can have access to a microgravity environment on a regular and frequent basis.

Researchers can actually fly their experiments into space, opening up a whole new paradigm for regular, accessible space research. We are excited to see the future work that the research community will do with this new capability."

Sirisha Bandla, vice president for government affairs at Virgin Galactic

Not only that tourism, therefore, but also search aboard Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip. Recently, in fact, the last test carried out by two astronaut pilots, Dave Mackay and C.J. Sturckow, who together reached an altitude of 89 km and then returned to earth.

Probably within the year the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) will authorize Virgin Galactic to conduct commercial flights over the Earth's atmosphere.

For those who can afford it, it will be an experience incredible, the company lets it be known that they are about 600 reservations for a flight into space with Virgin Galactic, the tests were successful, and it is likely that this new frontier of space tourism will soon be a reality tangible.

For those who do not have 2,000,000 Virgin points on hand, however, there is another "Galactic" experience waiting for him....

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