SpaceShipOne soared into space today, the second time in less than a week, and won the X Prize which worth if you were wondering a cool 10 million dollars. Here is how Google honored the winners, who will usher in a new age of space tourism:

The ultimate goal of the Burt Ratan crew is to bring the cost of a space flight for passengers down to the price of a low-cost car. I would gladly sell my Yugo to experience weightlessness. Richard Branson is already on the SpaceShipOne bandwagon – he’s licensed the technology to create Virgin Galactic, a company that will sell flights on a more consumer friendly version of Scaled Composite’s prize winning spacecraft. Branson says he’s naming the first plane the V.S.S. Enterprise. Talk about an homage. I hear they are only accepting applications from pilots named either Sulu or Checkov…