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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
James Randerson

Virgin Galactic: Richard Branson's pledge to prospective space tourists

If you are lucky enough to have $200,000 to spare and have signed up as one of Virgin Galactic's space tourists then this is the video Richard Branson will have sent you to whet your appetite.

Virgin hopes to take its passengers to the edge of space in 2010 – if all goes well with testing of its new vehicles SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo. Later, the company wants to take space tourists into the heart of the aurora borealis for the first time.

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