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Land Rover film details space trip

Video shows budding astronauts what they can expect on $1m+ jaunt into the cosmos.


Fancy being an astronaut? Then you might want to take part in Land Rover's latest competition, which will give four friends the chance to go into space, courtesy of the car firm's partner Virgin Galactic.

Land Rover has released a short film that shows these budding space-farers what they can expect if they win the trip, which is worth more than $1 million - or about €790,000. The top prize will see the winners take a one-week trip to the US, where they will undergo three days of training and preparation at the Foster + Partners designed Spaceport America in New Mexico, before taking a Mach 3.5 ride to space in Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, experiencing out-of-seat weightlessness and 'life-changing' views of planet Earth.

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Gabi Whitfield, global PR director for Land Rover, said: "We knew the appetite for space travel would be huge around the world but also that this is still an area most people know very little about. We wanted to give our competition entrants as much detail as possible on the prize, to get them really excited about this once-in-a-lifetime experience."

If you want to see the 'Winner Experience' video to see what all of this entails, then head to www.landrover.com/gotospace.

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Published on October 7, 2014