Fork out only RM638,000 for a few minutes in space

All a Malaysian needs to do to book a trip to space is merely to enter his name and e-mail into the booking section of the Virgin Galactic website. According to the website, those interested would need to put down a deposit of US$20,000 (RM63,800) for the tickets, which cost US$200,000 (RM638,000) each.
To book directly with Virgin Galactic, they are required to provide their name, gender, date of birth, country and mobile phone number.
Virgin Galactic also stated it would get in touch as soon as possible with those who responded and answer any questions they might have.
Malaysians are among the 450 customers worldwide who were reported in Wall Street Journal to be snapping up tickets for a private space tour with the Virgin Galactic for US$200,000 a seat.
Virgin Galactic commercial director Stephen Attenborough was quoted as saying that sales for the tour were under way in Asian countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and India.
Virgin Galactic promises to send travellers on a suborbital hop that features several minutes in space.
“Our initial ambition was to sign up 500 people by the time we start commercial operations. So we will be significantly ahead of that. It could be 700 to 800,” Attenborough reportedly said.
Apparently, most of them were males and “reasonably wealthy”.