text: Mark Rocket first New Zealander to book Virgin space flight
  
  May 22, 2006 
  
  Mark Rocket, a Christchurch Internet entrepreneur, has purchased a $300,000 flight into space with Virgin Galactic. 
  In 2008 he will take off for space from the Mojave Desert, near Los Angeles in an eight man spacecraft. He will spend about 10 minutes in space. 
  He has said that he always wanted to go into space ever since seeing the first Star Wars movie. He even changed his name because of the movie, but won't say what from.
tokens: Mark Rocket first New Zealander to book Virgin space flight May 22 , 2006 Mark Rocket , a Christchurch Internet entrepreneur , has purchased a $ 300,000 flight into space with Virgin Galactic . In 2008 he will take off for space from the Mojave Desert , near Los Angeles in an eight man spacecraft . He will spend about 10 minutes in space . He has said that he always wanted to go into space ever since seeing the first Star Wars movie . He even changed his name because of the movie , but wo n't say what from .
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