Space tourism company Virgin Galactic hopes to send tourists to space as early as the end of this year, after SpaceShipTwo reached space for the second time in three months last Friday.
The spaceship can carry six passengers up to 100 kilometres above sea level, where they experience weightlessness, at the price of $350 000 per passenger.
Competing with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Blue Origin, billionaire Richard Branson hopes The Spaceship Company, subsidiary of Virgin Galactic, will one day “transport people around the world at a fraction of the time that (aeroplanes) currently take.”