Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company has unveiled its design for SpaceShipTwo. SpaceShipTwo (pictured on the right) is very likely to be the first spaceship that offers a commercial flight into space. As the New York Timesexplains the trip, SpaceShipTwo is ferried into space by a much larger two-fuselage, four-engine plane called WhiteKnightTwo.
This is London says commercial flights could begin as early as 2009. There is no information on how much a flight would cost but the article says 200 potential astronauts have made deposits of £100,000 - over $200,000. Virgin Galactic has a faq on its website explaining how this trip to outer space will be perfectly safe.
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company has 
