Princess Beatrice of Great Britain plays Virgin Space Flight

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The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo accident during a test flight has many who were interested in the project, such as AOL reported the biggest shock. Well, at least one person who is supposed to have a place on the maiden flight, Princess Beatrice of York, apparently not travel , according to the Daily Mail.

"Beatrice was excited by the idea of space tourism, but there is no way she will visit one of the flights that may never take place," a 'source close to Buckingham Palace, "said publication.

The 26-year-old Beatrice, daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, is in a relationship with Dave Clark, CEO of Virgin Galactic astronauts.

The owner of Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson, plans to travel with his son and three guests.

Mansour Travel in Beverly Hills, a licensed Distributors Aerospace, told Reuters that the customers not request a refund . Tom Hanks and Angelina Jolie have booked trips.

Reuters wrote that 800 people paid to ride $ 250,000 in a two suborbital spacecraft driver with room for six passengers at a time. The cabin is the size of a Falcon 900 business jet to Virgin Galactic, with large windows to passengers the best possible view. A trip would take two hours and have several minutes of weightlessness.

"This is what it's all about exploration," the president of the Foundation CEO Peter Diamandis said XPrize, a trip we booked and Reuters. , "We risk our lives, and we believe that this is the American way - the way of the browser, for one, am proud to be a customer of Virgin Galactic be .."

A press representative Virgin Galactic said, AOL work immediately knew someone canceling a flight, but would try to get an answer.

Although it is called the first round of commercial space tourist, US businessman Dennis Tito paid $ 20 million to $ 20 million to Russia in 2001 for a trip paid on a Soyuz to the International Space Station by Space.com.

The accident occurred the life of his passenger SpaceShipTwo, while the pilot ejected, seriously injured. But it was not the first flight of the project. By October 30, there were a total of 172 flights.

Space is a dangerous business since time immemorial. Discuss shuttles Challenger and Columbia, Apollo 1 test and cause a fire or problems in the Russian space program, have more than 20 died before the accident, according to Live Science Blog.