Virgin Galactic spaceship to lift off in 2013

If you have got a spare $A200,000 and you're not sure what to do with it, how about becoming an astronaut for 5 minutes?

Virgin Galactic are aiming to put fare paying passengers into space within the next two years. The BBC's Transport correspondent Richard Scott has been given unprecedented access to the spaceship.

Sir Richard Branson is the business tycoon behind the Virgin Galactic spacecraft. His company was founded back in 2006, and in 2009 construction began at Spaceport America in New Mexico, that the first flight is expected to launch from in 2013.