World-weary investors keen to leave their cares behind can now afford to do just that, albeit for a short time, with sub-orbital space flights on offer for a cut-price of $95,000.

Xcor, a Mojave, California-based company, is planning to launch its rocket-powered spaceship Lynx in 2010, to carry a single passenger and a pilot 200,000 feet above the Earth at half the price of competitors.