I can't believe his F1 contract allows him to do anything so potentially dangerous until he retires. Sounds like a load of cobblers to me. If his contract _does_ permit him to do crazy stunts then McLaren & Mercedes need some better lawyers it seems!

I think it's unlikely Evil Ron would allow Lewis to do this. Look what happened when he let Juan Pablo Montoya play "tennis". Ron would rather be forced to be honest about something than let "his boy" risk his life in a home made upper-atmosphere-bothering machine.

I would look forward to the RonSpeak© reason for refusing the request though.

Mines the one with the goldfish bowl helmet attached...and the toolkit unattached.

Kindly refrain from this sort of headline on a Thursday. My weekly replacement keyboard doesn't normally arrive until Friday afternoon.

Um... they did watch those movies right?

Is she fulfilling the role of that kindly old lady your Mum sat you beside when you got a bus ride on your own when you were ten? I'm guessing yes.

Paris because her plastic surgery is less likely to perish during sex (just).

Would I rather being joining the 100mile club with Sigourney or Lewis's missus.....

If El Reg operated a rating system for comments then I predict yours would go all the way up to 11.

"I do want to go up but I need guarantees I'll definitely come back"

As its Sub-orbital, I'm guessing gravity would be your guaruntee.

In what manner you return however, is not.

At least 50 test flights are planned.

Paris Hilton as she's been reported as an early passenger.

"I can't believe his F1 contract allows him to do anything so potentially dangerous..."

You do know what he does for a living don't you?

/Paris - - she could work her passage.

Who in their right minds would go up into space on the same ship as Signourney Weaver?! Surely thats just asking for all sorts of really nasty trouble? Ripped apart, burned, blown up, left behind, melted, squashed, impregnated, frozen, asphyxiated, scared shitless, beaten up, shot etc etc etc.

They should get the Virgin spokesperson quoted to sit next to her, see how funny she thinks it is once she's encased in alien gunk and then had a foot long tongue shoved down her throat...

Mines the one with the acid proof lining that I just cant get to like any self respecting soon to be slaughtered nameless extra.

Go, Go Lewis. As far as possible.

Sub-orbital my arse - if I get half a chance I'll make sure that it gets filled up with some 'premium' rocket fuel that day.

<- Icon for what I wish to see near that jumped-up prat: surely the least-deserving winner ever.

I could never fly with something called Virgin, Who wants to fly in an aeroplane that won't go all the way?

Jokes aside, I wish I was him. I wonder if my better half will let me mortgage the house and buy a ticket?

Has been around for years, so I doubt he would be the first, even if they both had the room and the time to squeeze into the toilet.

At least if they decided to do it in their seats they would not look as revolting as the 40-somethings sat in front of me on the China Southern Airlines 747 from Amsterdam to Hong Kong last month,, YUCK!!!

Flame?? ROCKET EXHAUST!!!!!!