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SpaceShipOne successfully completed its repeat flights in October 2004, winning the prize. Richard Branson, chief of the Virgin entertainment and aviation empire, then invested in SpaceShipTwo as a space tourism vehicle and launched a new enterprise to operate flights, Virgin Galactic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fare for a trip to the edge of space -- an adventure that would include several days of preflight training at a new spaceport in New Mexico and perhaps a few minutes in a zero gravity environment during the flight -- is $250,000. The company has said more than 700 people have booked flights, which were scheduled to begin as early as next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Whitesides, Virgin Galactic's CEO, said Branson was traveling to Mojave and is expected to arrive Saturday. He and Witt, the Mojave space port manager, both put Friday's incident in the larger context of the quest to expand space exploration. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Space is hard, and today was a tough day,\" Whitesides said. \"We are going to be supporting the investigation as we figure out what happened today and we’re going to get through it. The future rests in many ways on hard days like this and we believe we owe it to the folks who were flying these vehicles as well as the folks who’ve been working so hard on this, to understand this and to move forward, which is what we’ll do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry observers agree that Friday's accident is a reversal for space tourism. 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