When it comes to space travel Branson’s Virgin have been first to step up to the plate. Virgin Galactic now give ordinary beings like us the chance to check out our soil from a whole new perspective. Galactic’s designer Burt Rutan, has also kept his mind on the environmental side of things too. So as well as turning amateurs into astronauts his pride and joy produces virtually no pollution. Our seal of approval is winging its way to him.

Flights don’t come cheap like you’d expect, but they definitely beat a long weekend in Crete any day. www.virgingalactic.com

It’s still a lot cheaper than what Anousheh Ansari forked out back in ‘06. See here: http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/02144/home.htm. For the Iranian born American business woman, a 20 million dollar crater in the bank balance was a price worth paying. And she became the first female visitor to get up close and personal with space.

This guide on space travel tells it how it is: http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/02144/home.htm

Ok, that’s space travel taken care of. Now let’s give time travel some attention.

The world’s greatest minds in physics have been thrown together recently to create the £4.65 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Reproducing the conditions that date back to the Big Bang, this seriously state of the art piece of kit might hold the key to time travel. Prof Irina Aref'eva and Dr Igor Volovich (mathematical physicists at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow) reckon the LHC may be able to generate wormholes in space and allow us some sort of time travel.

So if anyone can crack time travel, it’s this lot of physicists. No question about it.

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• An aerospace engineer working on a project to develop a spacecraft, deciding how big it should be, or what rocket to launch it on and ensuring technical specifications and requirements are met
• A materials engineer ensuring that the materials and processes on a spacecraft are suitable for use in the harsh environment of space
• A research scientist in a Space Science Laboratory studying what happens to fields and particles when a spacecraft goes through a shock wave in space
• An IT systems analyst working with advanced simulation tools in the flight control room where computers monitor and control aspects of the spacecraft

To explore the Space travel quest click: http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01581

Take a virtual space-trip on this award-winning space tour: http://www.spacewander.com

For more on space exploration these are good places to be:
BBC Science
UK Space Agency (try the Learning Zone)
How Stuff Works
Royal Astronomical Society