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To Infinity and Beyond Back in the good old days, the Russian Space Agency had monopoly on space tourism, bringing well-healed amateur space explorers to the international Space Station with its Soyuz space craft for a cool USD20-35million a pop. Now, Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is about to get into the game, and we hear that inflight service is really something to talk about. Website: www.virgingalactic.com (article from MAS Going Places Magazine Nov 2010) The VSS Enterprise was unveiled last December, and today flew for the first time out of Mojave Spaceport in California, as captured in the image above. "VSS Enterprise remained attached to its unique WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft, VMS Eve, for the duration of the 2 hours 54 minutes flight, achieving an altitude of 45,000ft (13716 metres)." Both crafts are developed for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic by Burt Rutan and team at Mojave-based Scaled Composites. The VSS Enterprise test flights wi...

World's Fastest Electric Car Shelby Super Cars (SSC)   Ultimate Aero EV FAB WHEELS The Shelby Supercars Ultimate Aero retails at USD740,000 - the fact that it can reach a mind numbing top speed of 430km/h probably has lot to do with the high sticker price. Space age carbon and a ton of tech also help keep costs astronomical indeed for a street racer type with money to burn. Website: shelbysupercars.com (article from: MAS Going Places Magazine Nov 2010) Shelby Supercars maker of the Ultimate Aero, world's fastest production car record holder, now develops an electric version. SSC is now pursuing the title of World's fastest electric car with the Ultimate Aero EV . The Ultimate Aero EV is powered by a twin motor setup producing 1,000 HP and 800 lb-ft of torque enabling it to rocket to 60 mph in a mere 2.5 seconds and a top speed of 208 MPH. Not only does the Ultimate Aero EV have a range of 150-200 miles on a single charge, but SSC's "Charge on the RunTM" o...

Villa Leopolda : the most expensive villa in the world ! Premium Pad The Villa La Leopolda in Nice, France has some very high profile names attched to it. Tech magnate Bill Gates of Microsoft used to own it. Now, Russian football tzar Roman Abramovich has the keys to this prime piece of Mediterranean fronted property since 2008. Encompassing some 10 acres of lush high-end real estate, its price USD398,350,000 is enough to fund a small nation for a few years at least.   Roman Abramovich These so called thro­phy prop­er­ties will be directly related to the rest of the mar­ket, namely a lot cheaper. Direc­tor of Sotheby’s Inter­na­tional Realty in Cap Fer­rat, Peter Ilovsky was over­heard say­ing: “Own­ing a prop­erty in Cap Fer­rat is like hav­ing a Picasso. It’s cer­tainly bet­ter than plac­ing the money in a Swiss bank.” Finding a nice holiday home on the French Riviera is becoming simply impossible. The stock of available properties are going smaller through the years. W...