SpaceX to SLASH travel times: SpaceX will ROCKET from London to New York ‘in 30 MINUTES’

And this extraterrestrial travel via outer space represents a potentially lucrative market for the likes of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, who have also entered the space tourism race.

Jarrod Castle and Myles Walton, analysts with UBS, said: “Although some might view the potential to use space to service the long-haul travel market as science fiction, we think there is a large market.

“While space tourism is still at a nascent phase, we think that as technology becomes proven, and the cost falls due to technology and competition, space tourism will become more mainstream.”

Experts estimate longer haul flights, such as the notorious London to Sydney – which can currently take 23 hours – would take less than an hour on a SpaceX Starship rocket.

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