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“Fly me to the moon” is no longer a romantic notion. Indeed, it’s a request that Angie Lepley, President of Kirkland-based ETI Travel, will soon be hearing a lot. Lepley has been selected to be one of only 45 travel consultants in North America to be accredited as a “space agent” by Virgin Galactic, a company that will begin offering suborbital space flights to the public in 2008.

Lepley was a natural choice for selection. Her ETI Travel is the largest independently owned travel agency in the state of Washington. To prepare for her new role, Lepley recently spent a week in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where she received Astronaut training, “G-force acclimatization” as well as the “how-to’s” of selling and marketing suborbital space travel.

Virgin Galactic, a company owned by philanthropist Richard Branson is building its own spaceships for this program. The spaceships will reportedly travel at over 3,000 miles per hour.

The first flights launch in late 2008 at a cost of $200,000 per ticket. ETI has already received numerous inquiries and is now taking reservations. If you’ve got the bucks, you can contact the agency at 425-822-2333.

—PR Newswire

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