The space tourism services by Virgin Galactic will start its operations in 2012.
But what is this space flight all about?
Well, Virgin Galactic will get you started with a couple of days of light preparation, which includes medical tests, safety training and interactive sessions for the space travellers and pilots to get to know each other, followed by a meeting with the billionaire founder of the company Richard Branson.
The two-hour flight to space and back will take passengers 110 km above the earth's surface.
Stephen Attenborough, the CEO of Virgin Galactic, who will also fly to space in the first year of commercial operations, says, "You are classified as an astronaut on travelling to up to 100 KMs above the earth's surface. We intend to push this a little and turn ordinary citizens into astronauts on this space journey."
The suborbital tourism firm is working to develop flight vehicles with Scaled Composites, a California-based aeronautical firm that won the X Prize to build the first privately funded manned spaceship.
