HAS
Sir Richard Branson been watching too much Barbarella, the Sixties sci-fi film in which a nearnaked Jane Fonda floated round a spaceship? For one of the ‘space tourists’ who has paid to travel on the bearded tycoon’s Virgin Galactic suborbital flights hopes they will feature a place for making love. ‘There will be a sex room in space,’ claims Per Wimmer, a Danish philanthropist. ‘There’s a few technical difficulties because you are floating around. You’ve got to get strapped down. From a man’s perspective, it can be more difficult, but they can take Viagra.’ Who needs rocket-boosters?