Thais wooed for space trips
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Bangkok-based Khiri Voyages has been appointed as exclusive Thailand agent for Space Expedition Corporation (SXC), which will hold its Asiawide media launch in Hong Kong on Monday. The first flights into space will be late this year or early 2014.
The cost per trip is approximately Bt4.2 million. Exclusively for the Thai market, the price includes the training mission to the Netherlands and the space journey from the Spaceport in either Curacao – a Dutch-controlled island in the Caribbean – or the US, business-class flights from Bangkok to both destinations, transfers, and deluxe accommodation for two people. Additional modules of pre-flight training, such as zero-gravity flights, are available, at extra cost, if the space traveller wants to subscribe to these.
SXC says space travel is no longer the exclusive domain of governments. It is now coming into reach for private individuals and organisations. SXC will facilitate space adventure travel for Thai nationals who book through Khiri Voyages, which has an introductory Thai-language website up at www.spacevoyages.asia ahead of Monday’s SXC press event.
After booking through Khiri Voyages, Thai space travellers will undergo training in the Netherlands, which includes a flight in an L39 Albatross jet and the unique Desdemona simulator, which generates Gforces of up to 3.3G.
