Space Escape

The last page of the May 1999 issue of Smart Money lists Space Adventures as selling suborbital space travel reservations beginning in late 2002/early 2003: Reservations are $6,000. Ticket cost is $90,000. I'm sure big money has reserved May 2003.

Offered by Charles.

Millionaires Take Tim at Mars
First Mission Could Test Artificial-Gravity System in 2003
MSNBC, August 31, 2001

Several dot-com millionaires have formed a foundation to bankroll space shots aimed at putting humans on Mars, a founding member tells MSNBC.com. Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk says the first mission should get off the ground as early as 2003. That mission could involve putting mice in Earth orbit to test an artificial-gravity system.