Our London meeting went well, althought London was quite rainy. At the Farnborought international airhow we got the latest news. Everything is ready that Virgin Galactic can start test flights to space. The first commecial flight will happen 2013 so my turn might ne in 2014. Mr Branon will take his two chidren to the first flight.

At the meeting I sold some "Finnish Astronaut" winter hats to other astronauts. Some of them got interested, and in the next meeting we might also see "Swedish Astronaut" and "Icelandic Astronaut" hats as well. This time we were 120 astronauts at the meeting, more than 10 were from Skandinavia.

The biggest news from Virgin Galactic was, that they go into small satellite lauch business in 2016. They use the same technique as sending us to the space.

http://www.virgingalactic.com/news/item/xxx/

Picture from the meeting can be found in here:

http://en.suomalainenastronautti.fi/albumi/london2012/