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Tony Poe of Little Rock-based Poe Travel today announced he is among 45 U.S. travel agents selected by Virgin Galactic to train to become an "Accredited Space Agent."

Virgin Galactic is part of billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group, and it is developing spaceships for tourism. If all goes as planned, Poe will be the local contact to reserve seats aboard Virgin Galactic’s suborbital space flights, which are scheduled to begin in late 2008.

Posted by Warwick Sabin on December 12, 2006 03:28 PM | Permalink

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I was lucky enough to get to attend a lecture by Sir Richard Branson at a business conference a couple of months ago. The man stammers like Hugh Grant or James Stewart, which adds greatly to the feeling that he's just a regular guy. Billionaire, but a regular guy billionaire.

He must be doing something right because he's constantly "breaking the rules" of business, diversifying into fields he knows nothing about, and he usually comes out smelling like a rose.

Ron Howard (Opie) says he's going up on one of the first flights of this new sub-orbital spacecraft. Hope it goes well. I think I'll stick to commercial jets.

Posted by: Spirit | December 12, 2006 03:50 PM

Dude, that is flippin' sweet! Wish I had the money to go, but, alas, I do not.

Posted by: Liberal and Proud | December 12, 2006 04:15 PM

Cool. Maybe we'll be able to buy tickets up to Dubya's moon base.

Posted by: Archaeopteryx | December 12, 2006 04:27 PM

"Cool. Maybe we'll be able to buy tickets up to Dubya's moon base."

Maybe Huckle Boy can get elected, and with his ego, name a Moon base in his namesake, then one for Jethrine, then the kids maybe his dogs get honored too.
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Posted by: Lwood | December 12, 2006 04:51 PM

Didn't Pan Am offer bookings for flights to the moon some years back? Oh wait, they're out of business. Good thing I didn't book with them.

Posted by: widj | December 12, 2006 09:06 PM

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