VICTORIA PRINCIPAL'S VIRGIN SPACE MISSION

Victoria Principal

Former Dallas star Victoria Principal is fulfilling her childhood fantasy after becoming the first woman to buy a ticket on Sir Richard Branson's commercial passenger spacecraft. The actress is among almost 300 ticket holders who purchased a $200,000 suborbital day trip on the Virgin tycoon's VSS Enterprise. The two-pilot, six-person craft will be carried to the edge of space by a carrier plane, where passengers will experience weightlessness. Victoria was the first woman, to sign up for the adventure. She tells People.com, "Going into space fulfils many desires I have of seeing the planet, going fast, going someplace very few people have been - and hopefully coming back down! I'm a passenger in something that is pioneering. This will become to our great-grandchildren what Wilbur and Orville Wright were to you and me." Virgin Galactic will begin testing the spaceship early next year, with the first flights due to launch in 2011.
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