Space tourists paying now for spots on short flights - Jun. 21, 2004: "Buck Rogers bucks

For $102,000, you too can go on a privately financed trip to space -- once the kinks are worked out.
June 21, 2004: 1:26 PM EDT
By Chris Isidore, CNN/Money senior writer

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - London investment banker Per Wimmer had lots of interest in Monday's first privately financed manned space flight -- $102,000 worth, to be exact.

Wimmer has already paid Space Adventures, a sort of space travel agency, to reserve a seat on a future sub-orbital space flight similar to one made Monday by veteran test pilot Michael Melvill. "