Ever dream of being weightless, floating through the fathoms of space and discovering things never seen by human eyes, but you just don't have the constitution for the training and politics that go into becoming an astronaut? Hmm, got $200,000?

Everyone's favorite gazillionaire mogul Richard Branson has built a commercial plane he dubbed 'Mother Ship' to take travellers up into the upper layers of the atmosphere and, via a specialized self-propelled module he calls SpaceShipTwo, blast them into space, albeit for a brief moment before they plunge back to Earth. I'm squirming just thinking about this, but I'm sure there are people who would and will jump at the opportunity -- so far, more than 100 people have prepaid for the yet-to-be-scheduled flight. A ticket on board this commercial craft, leaving from a desert in New Mexico, will cost $200,000 -- or, $50,000 per minute you are technically in space.

Call me crazy, but I don't think you could pay me the $200,000 ticket fee to even get on board. Not for nothin', but the idea of being confined in a tiny spaceship and being blasted into the deep dark makes me quake, even from the comfort of my relatively stable desk chair. But, kudos to Branson, and congrats to all you rich folk who have the money to buy yourselves a dream come true. As Buzz says, 'To infinity and beyond!