VIDEO OF THE DAY - Virgin Galactic

Let a man with a beard take you to the outer limits

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8 December 2009 12:00 GMT / By Ian Hughes

So, are you going anywhere exciting for Christmas, Your Mum's? Your Auntie's? Your local pub?

Maybe you're jetting off to the slopes for a little off-piste snow-boarding.

Whatever it is you've got planned, we reckon we can top it with this.

Virgin have unveiled their "Spaceship 2", which will be taking paying passengers to the edges of space as early as 2011.

The cost? A mere £130,000.

I can feel a very special 'Dear Santa' letter coming on...

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