posted 11-23-2009 09:39 AM               

SpaceShipTwo in the new issue out now!

A new space race is hotting up. No longer reserved for NASA's 'right stuff' from Ohio, space travel is set to become an affordable prospect for more and more people. Soon, you won't even have to be a millionaire!

Currently leading the commercial space travel charge is Virgin Galactic. So it was with great delight that, for the December issue of Focus, we welcomed onboard a guest editor - none other than Richard Branson himself, who heads up an issue in which we look at the future of space tourism.

Whether your ideal holiday is a week on the Moon or just a weekend break in low-Earth orbit, you won't want to miss our 18-page guide to this exciting new phenomenon. Richard talks us through the birth of Virgin Galactic, while we meet the pilots and engineers making it all possible, and look at who Virgin's potential competitors will be in what's sure to be an ever-growing market in years and decades to come.