Want to take a joyride in space? All Aboard with Virgin Galactic!

It seems the stuff that dreams are made out of, but within the next ten years, commercial airlines could be offering almost-affordable luxury cruises in space.

Formerly only available to mega-millionaires who forked out six figures to ride on Russian Rockets on a trip to the orbiting space station, commercial spaceflight crossed the event horizon into the realms of possibility today, with today's unveiling of a new type of crossover air-space craft which will make trips into the stratosphere to view the curvature of earth a possibility to commercial passengers.

The craft, appropriately named SpaceShipTwo, looks eerily similar to a Star Trek fanatic's childhood wall posters. Fixed between a 'mothership' of two powerful spacecraft joined together, the sleek, double-fronted beast will carry SS2 to launch altitudes before dropping away to let the spaceship carry on solo into space.



British billionaire Richard Branson and his family will be the first people to 'take her up,' and it is expected that Virgin Galactic - yes, that's its real name - will be offering Space Flights within the decade.

In case you still don't believe it: here's the booking form.

Check out Virgin Galactic's jaw-dropping promo video, and see how you can fly into space - without remortgaging your house.