Ibrahim Sharaf Hooks Up With Branson
Where: United Arab Emirates
Meet curious traveler Ibrahim Sharaf. There he is, above, chilling out on the North Pole. But that's nothing compared to where he'll be sometime in 2009: in space with Richard Branson. Sharaf will join Branson aboard Virgin Galactic's inaugural sub-orbital space flight, at a cost of $200,000. That's probably somewhere in the realm of pocket change for the Emirati businessman whose namesake company, Sharaf Group, has one of its many tentacles dipped in the tourism industry. Barring any wild stunts fueled by endless oodles of money (because that would never happen in the UAE), Sharaf should be the first Emirati in space.
[Photo: ArabianBusiness.com]
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· Ibrahim Sharaf to be first Emirati in space [Gulf News]
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