Space Needle Gets Into Commercial Space Race With Tourism Contest

Space Needle To Send Tourists Into Orbit

Seattle's Space Needle is turning fifty and the building's owners are planning to celebrate by holding an elaborate raffle-cum-contest for a free space flight.

Ron Sevart, the CEO of the Space Needle, told the AP that the landmark, constructed for the 1962 World's Fair, was built at "an optimistic time, a forward-looking time, right in the middle of the space race." To recapture that spirit of astronomical adventure, Sevart plans to give away a ticket worth roughly $110,000 for a ride on Space Adventures rocket.

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