Oklahoma TV discovers space tourism—sorta

An article posted on the web site of Oklahoma City TV station KSBI offers a revelation: “Space tourism isn’t necessarily out of the question”. The reason it isn’t out of the question, the article explains, is that while orbital flights to the ISS may cost $20 million, people can get a suborbital flight for about one percent of the cost. Oddly, even though the TV station is based in the same city as Rocketplane, one of the pioneers in suborbital space tourism, the company gets only a brief mention in the penultimate paragraph.