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Presently, a London to Sydney flight can take up to 22 hours. However, the study published in Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance suggests that commercial suborbital space flights could revolutionize travel, drastically reducing the journey time.
Travellers could be thrown into space for a short time period before descending to their destination much quicker than via airplane, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).