Space Tourism

You recall that among the things the future would bring, besides jetpacks and flying cars (hoverboards, etc) was the opportunity to go to the Moon/low Earth orbit as easily as you'd jet off to Alicante?

A bloke called Dennis Tito got ahead of the curve courtesy of the Russian space agency: http://www.space.com/dennistito/

Now Richard Branson (he of the trains, planes and mobile phones) wants a piece of the action: http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1235926,00.html