Virgin multi-millionaire Sir Richard Branson is planning to offer space travel to adventurous tourist.

Sir Richard told Guardian Unlimited that Virgin was investing money in \"trying to make sure that, in the not too distant future, people from around the world will be able to go into space\".

The entrepreneur, famed for his love of daredevil world record attempts, said he he wanted to bring \"space tourism\" to the masses by pricing the flights at affordable levels and hoped to be aboard the first tourist flight into space.

He refused to be drawn on the details of the project but the public should expect an announcement revealing Virgin\'s latest enterprise by the end of the month.

\"All will be revealed over the next two or three weeks but, in a general sense, space is the ultimate frontier, and something we at Virgin have dearly wanted to do is to bring space tourism one day to the masses,\" he said to Guardian Unlimited.

Sir Richard\'s official announcement of his space flight aspirations could coincide with the test flight on June 21 of SpaceShipOne.

Sir Richard refused to reveal whether his space tourism plan would involve SpaceShipOne.