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The Burj Khalifa announced on Thursday that tickets are now on sale for the United Arab Emirates’ weekend of Friday and Saturday for sunrise viewings.
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Management at the Burj Khalifa say the sessions start from 5:30am and viewings are held every 30 minutes on the 124th floor until 8:00am. Previously, weekend viewings started from 8:30am.
PHOTO: NATIONALGEOGRAPHICTickets for the viewings are priced at 125 dirhams ($34) for adults and 95 dirhams ($26) for children ages four to 12. However, children under the age of four gain free entry.
20-km-high 'space elevator' could be a reality soon
The pointed 2,717-foot tall Burj Khalifa opened to the public in January 2010.
Meanwhile, a Canadian company wants to build a tower 20 times higher than Dubai’s Burj Khalifa that would allow astronauts to take an elevator part way into orbit.
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The idea of a “space elevator” was first proposed in 1895 by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky after he saw the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and was revisited nearly a century later in a novel by Arthur C Clarke.
This article originally appeared on Associated Press.
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