the Dream of a walk in space has come a step closer to the Danish financier and rumentusiast Per Wimmer.
He has a ticket to the turistrumfartøjet “SpaceShipTwo”, which on Thursday conducted a successful test flight from California’s desert and 80 kilometres up in the atmosphere to the edge of the room.
– managed to finally get up to the room. I’m super happy and very excited.
– We are in the last part of the testing phase. It means that I am now a big step closer to come in the room as astronaut, says Per Wimmer.
He says, that there now remains, a long series of tests and launches, in the u.s. aviation in the last end to turn your thumb up.
He dare not, however, put a time frame for when the spacecraft is ready to fly out of the room.
It is the british director Richard Bransons rumselskab, Virgin Galactic, which stands for the launch.
Per Wimmer have paid 250.000 u.s. dollars – equivalent to 1,64 million dollars – for a ticket to space.
The 50-year-old dane living in London, where he is the owner of investment bank Wimmer Financials.
in Parallel with his business career, he has through the years tried to come in the room.
He hoped in the several years to become the first dane in space, but was overtaken by the professional astronaut Andreas Mogensen in 2015.
Per Wimmer will be one of the first individuals who come in the room with SpaceShipTwo, if it becomes a reality.
the Dream of getting in the room refers to he as the best.
– I’m a pioneer, I’m the adventurer and has travelled in over 80 countries. I have lived with indians in the Amazon jungle, and I have jumped in a parachute over Mount Everest.
– If you are a adventurer in the 21. century, so is the world more or less discovered. The real limit for an adventurer is the room. It is upward, it is farther away, says Per Wimmer.
The posters will according to plan take the starting point from New Mexico in the UNITED states.
There will be eight people on board – including two test pilots and six astronauts.
According to Reuters, has over 600 persons paid a deposit for a trip. Among them is actor Leonardo DiCaprio and pop star Justin Bieber.
