About two dozen affluent Canadians mainly from Ontario and Alberta are among hundreds of people who are in line to become space tourists in the coming months.

They have already reserved a suborbital flight on a Virgin Galactic space plane by putting a deposit on a $250,000 US ticket.

But the head of the Canadian branch of the Space Tourist Society predicts it could be at least a decade before costs come down enough to allow the average Canadian to boldly go where they haven’t gone before.

“It’s going to happen sooner or later,” Azam Shaghaghi said in an interview. “Hopefully, in the next 10 to 15 years it would be really affordable to fly back and forth.”

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