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US Airways Offers Frequent Flyer Suborbital Space Trip

US Airways has teamed with Space Adventures to offer space travel adventures as rewards in US Airways frequent flyer plan. Flying 10 million miles on US Airways can earn the frequent flyer a free half-hour suborbital launch into space aboard a reusable rocket, expected to be available by 2005.

One Shuttle Launch Tour award - 30,000 miles + US$650

• Tour the launch and landing facilities
• Listen to presentation with former NASA astronauts
• Learn first-hand about the Kennedy Space Center
• Watch an IMAX movie
Or
• Pay full retail price of US$1,150 based on double occupancy and earn 5,000 US Airways frequent flyer miles

One Zero-Gravity award - 250,000 miles + US$2,000

• One Zero-Gravity Flight
- Walk like an astronaut
- Experience weightlessness
• Spend two nights in Moscow
• Receive a video from the flight
Or
• Pay full retail price of US$5,400 based on double occupancy and earn 50,000 US Airways frequent flyer miles.

One Edge of Space award Aboard a MiG-25 "Foxbat" jet fighter - 275,000 miles + US$8,000

• Rocket to altitudes as high as 85,000 feet
• Travel faster than twice the speed of sound
• See the curvature of the Earth below
• See the blackness of space above

One Suborbital Spaceflight award - 10,000,000 miles

• A reserved seat on the first suborbital spacecraft to take passengers to space.
Retail price of this space adventure is US$98,000.

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March 11, 2002