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THE boss of the world?s first space travel firm has revealed how a film producer attempted to hire the world?s most advanced space craft ? to make a porn movie.
Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn has said he was baffled when he was approached by someone interested in hiring the whole spacecraft ? only to find out he was a porn baron.
The Scots-born boss, who heads-up Virgin?s space tourism arm for Richard Branson, said that he didn?t know how much was on offer, but that money was clearly no object.
The 49-year-old said: ?We hot approached by someone who turned out to be a porn-film maker who wanted to hire the whole ship.
?They wanted to make a sex movie in space. I had to turn him down.?
Each place on SpaceShipTwo ? which must be launched into the atmosphere by its powerful carrier WhiteKnightTwo ? costs ?120,000 per seat.
With six passenger seats on the spacecraft, the production would have brought the costs to a massive ?720,000, making it one of the most expensive adult films to date.
The most expensive porn movie to date is Pirates II: Stagnetti?s revenge which cost just under ?5,000,000 in 2008.
However that doesn?t compare to sleazy 1978 brit flick Caligula, which cost a staggering ?10,500,000.
The flights are expected to commence in 2011, have already had a lot of interest from enthusiasts, including X-Men director Bryan Singer, physicist Stephen Hawking, F1 legends Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello and Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson.
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