Virgin Galactic introduces their new space craft to travel to suborbital space and back.

Developed from Rutan’s SpaceShipOne, a piloted and reusable spacecraft that won the $10 million Ansari X Prize for suborbital spaceflight in 2004, SpaceShipTwo is an air launched vehicle designed to carry six passengers.

The SpaceShipTwo will drop from a twin-cabin high-altitude jet that can double as a space tourist training craft. WhiteKnightTwo carries four engines and a wingspan of about 140 feet, rivaling a B-29 bomber. The WhiteKnightTwo is built to handle unmanned rockets capable of launching small satellites into orbit.

Virgin Galactic now offers ticket aboard SpaceShipTwo for an initial price of $200,000. The ticket cost is expected to drop after the first five years of operations. The space tourism firm plans to eventual launch flights out of a terminal at New Mexico’s Spaceport America, with additional trips through the aurora borealis to be staged from Kiruna, Sweden.

If traveling around the world is not enough, it is now possible to travel to outer space and back to the earth.