She was not the largest passenger vessel that had ever been built, and reporters at the time were not convinced she would be even the fastest.

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The U.S. Coast Guard offers the Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessel license, which lasts for five years and allows you to transport up to six paying passengers.

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Launched six decades ago to haul rail cars across the Great Lakes, the Badger was spared from the scrapyard in the late 1980s when an entrepreneur bought and refurbished it as a passenger vessel.

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Brent Nutt told the Associated Press that while those on board were being fed, his wife, a passenger, told him the vessel was becoming increasingly dirty.

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The offshoot of billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways in December unveiled the first commercial passenger spaceship, a sleek black-and-white vessel that represents an expensive gamble on creating a commercial space tourism industry.

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