It’s cheaper to travel by rocket than use the London Under-
ground, according to BBC Online, which reports that a ticket
to travel between Covent Garden and Leicester Square costs
1.50 British pounds.
“Since the stops are only 300 metres apart, that works out
at 8.04 pounds a mile,” says the report. Amateur astronaut
Dennis Tito’s recent trip into space cost him 14 million
pounds - but his journey worked out at 5.61 pounds per mile.
"5.61 pounds per mile" means, the space station should have been 1.2 million miles above Earth (return trip 2.5m miles). Where as the International Space Station is only 205 nautical miles above earth.