SpaceShot plans to award suborbital trips on Rocketplane\'s space plane, shown in this artist\'s conception, as the top prize in an online game. \



You don’t have to aim to be an astronaut to explore the dark mysterious space above. It has become so simple and so much fun. All you need is to play Virgin’s spaceship-themed game, Galactic Quest for as low as $3.50 and predict Central Park’s weather for the next day. So if you are the lucky one getting as far as level 18 then the world’s first suborbital journey on a spacecraft is yours for the taking.



A joint venture of SpaceShot a Texas company and Rocketplane Ltd. of Oklahoma it will make happen the dreams of millions of people to explore that part of the universe where only the wealthy and government astronauts have dared to venture until now. The company will also be in charge of hosting the online skill game tournaments while Rocketplane Ltd.of Oklahoma busies itself designing and building the high-tech reusable spaceplanes to take the lucky winner to his space trip by 2007.



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