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Art Dula, CEO of Excalibur Almaz, on space travel becoming a reality for the public as soon as 2015 with tickets costing more than $150 million.
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And I wanted to get away but no Warner -- far enough away well how about a trip to the -- at UK based based research company X caliber -- -- Hopes to make that a re out of joining me now the company CEO art -- are up and -- Horrid so the plan is to fly commercially to the moon by 2015 -- you -- schedule that's right we are reforming the first expedition now.
All right tickets -- was such back a hefty sum.
100 to 115 million dollars per person.
Yes it's it's a hundred and million pounds which was -- a 155.
Million dollars oh my goodness so even more by the US dollar that we had initially thought just looking at the quick research 29 tickets sold already.
No we haven't sold them you know but we expect to cut testament -- from the from Tron corporation which is -- -- ago.
Become metrics wellstone and morph into in the -- contract and can look at the markets.
So not only -- that the connects.
Huge sums of money but you have to commit time because it cause you have to expect several months of training so what's involved on that -- you.
Well actually it's going to be about -- Europe trending the training usually important because you have to learn how to operate the spacecraft and you have to learn how to maintain it.
OK so.
Who is committed or who do you expect to commit to buying these tickets and -- who's doing the training.
Well it's in the way you going on a scientific expedition like we -- on the seventeenth so entry to the South Pacific were to Antarctica.
Privately financed -- a long history of doing this.
The training will be done by the people that built the spacecraft and Russia also by our European no partner -- -- that is building the -- equipment.
-- would he do want to get to the moon.
Well you.
Fly around it the first one won't land our spacecraft stays in space it's very big it's about.
Six times the size of the or -- counsel being built by -- Look at pictures of all the different components of the space -- it's it's really fascinating you know -- it.
And -- so much talk about this idea to let people buy tickets to go to -- with any side of it is.
What about you we just heard done with it Larry Ellison buying an a Hawaiian Islands with to develop it bring towards -- -- expect.
People to go to the moon and develop -- tape entitled or of course eventually it's quite likely that we'll have.
Businesses in space like we have now on earth and the moon -- -- place to go to live and work.
Up what we have to develop an economy to do it.
NASA has done wonderful work and long range research what we're trying to dues to form private expeditions to go there and we have the spacecraft.
Thank you so much good luck to you fast fast picking at night.
