Virgin Galactic, a company owned and established by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to undertake the challenge of making private space travel available to everyone and by creating the world’s first commercial spaceline, has recently unveiled the design of its new space shuttle model, the SpaceShipTwo.

The space launch system of the new SpaceShipTwo is based on the technology of preceding model SpaceShipOne, which successfully flew into space for the third time in October 2004. It is comprised of two vehicles: The White Knight Two (WK2) mothership, or carrier aircraft, which will be capable of lifting other payload (such as small satellites and scientific load) and launching it into space. And the 60-feet-long SpaceShipTwo shuttle, with room for six astronaut passengers and two pilots, which will be launched into orbit by the White Knight Two.

Whilst the two vehicles comprising the space launch system are still under construction, Virgin Galactic’s reported that it received over 85,000 registrations of interest to fly.

Virgin Galactic’s spaceport and operational headquarters, Spaceport America, will be built in New Mexico. However, initial flights will be launched from the Mojave Spaceport in the Mojave Desert, California.

Space tickets cost $200,000 and deposits start from $20,000.