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Most Americans Aren't Volunteering for Space Travel

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Virgin Galactic owner Richard Branson insists he'll have commercial travelers in space by the end of next year, but a trip to space isnt high on most Americans to-do lists.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 30% of American Adults would travel into space on a commercial flight if they could afford it. Sixty-one percent (61%) would not. (To see survey question wording,click here.)

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The national survey of 1,000 American Adults was conducted on April 5-6, 2017 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Fieldwork for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted byPulse Opinion Research, LLC. Seemethodology.

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