Insurance Age blog: Space - the final frontier

Up until now, the opportunity to venture into space has been available to a very select few. In fact over the past 50 years less than 500 people have been lucky enough to blast into that vast abyss that exists beyond our rather worn out ozone layer.

For most of us, space is an enigma, a smorgasbord of things that we have been taught (the solar system, black holes, Neil Armstrong) and what we have soaked up from the media (and Stephen Hawking) all deliciously mixed with our own fantastical ideas of what might be out there, just waiting to be discovered. The man in the moon has a lot to answer for.

This is all set to change, if Richard Branson has anything to say about it. Although it is somewhat behind schedule, Virgin Galactic should be