The State - News from Dec. 9, 1985

The Stanford University Alumni Assn. plans to collect deposits from adventurous alumni willing to pay $50,000 each for a 12-hour ride aboard a flight of a private space shuttle. “This is no joke,” said Peter Voll, the association’s director of travel studies. “When it happens, we want to be the first in line.” He said a “substantial deposit” has been made to reserve 20 seats on the first charter launch. Individual deposits of $5,000 each are required, and applications will go out in a few weeks. Voll said he is working with a Seattle travel firm that hopes there will be a cheap, reusable space vehicle available in the 1990s.