But the rich have always been guinea pigs for technological advancements. Remember the clunky super-expensive cellular phones of the 1980s, with their exorbitant calling fees? If the rich hadn t bought their status toy , the mobile would not have been ubiquitous today.
Two Italian air force officers and an aerospace engineer from the National Research Council of Italy will join a Virgin Galactic instructor and the spaceplane s two pilots on a suborbital ride on Thursday.