Virgin Galactic's space tourism venture moved a step closer to reality yesterday with the first touch down of SpaceShipTwo at Spaceport America on 22 Oct.

Spaceport America, the future New Mexico private space launch site for Virgin Galactic, Rocket Racing, and XCOR Aerospace, broke ground for construction on 19 June 2009.

Not content with leaving the space tourism market to Virgin Galactic and Rocket Racing, XCOR has pitched their bid for blasting paying passengers into space

Space startup company Armadillo Aerospace won the $350,000 prize on Friday in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, proving that a private company has the know-how to build a craft capable of ferrying supplies, astronauts, or even tourists at some point, around the lunar surface

Rocket Racing launches a new space travel service to compete with Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic will soon offer up trips through the northern lights if Richard Branson's plans come to fruition.

Starting in 2009, you can take a space trip with Virgin Galactic for the bargain price of $200,000!