Virgin Galactic has officially unveiled the newest fruits of Richard Branson's unimaginable wealth.

When the lord of the Virgin fiefdom first announced plans for a $200,000 service to provide sightseeing passenger flights into suborbital space, we thought it must be nice to be worth nearly $8 billion, because you can pretty much do anything you damn well please.

Now that the design and construction of the White Knight 2 is complete, we've got to wonder if the in-flight snack box is an extra, say, $18,000.

Virgin Galactic's collaborator on the venture, Scaled Composites, had already demonstrated suborbital flight with the rocket plane Space Ship One (SS1) in 2004. WK2 is a launch vehicle which will get SS1 far enough away from Earth that the rocket ship will be able to fire up its own jets and make it to the outer reaches.

Get Your Geek on: Wired had an article last year about Virgin's Space Port being constructed in the Mojave desert, and here's a Gizmodo video of the press conference the other day as well as an interview with one of Virgin's space pilots.

Question Raised: Would you pay $200,000 for a short trip into space?