A Chinese firm is developing a new machine to transport tourists into space and across the world at speeds of 2,600mph, dubbing it a "rocket with wings".
A video by Space Transportation shows animated passengers boarding a plane attached to a wing powered by rockets.
Once safely seated, the vehicle stands vertically and takes off.
Once in the air the plane detaches and shoots off into space on its suborbital journey - in the example to Dubai -before landing vertically on three legs which detract from its rear.
Its ultrasonic speeds means passengers could travel between London and New York in around an hour.
Ground tests by the company, full name Beijing Lingkong Tianxing Technology Co, are expected as early as next year, with a first flight in 2024.
A test flight for its space vehicle is expected as soon as 2030.
A spokesman for the company said: "What we are developing is a rocket with wings, which realises high-speed point-to-point transportation.
“We are developing a winged rocket for high-speed, point-to-point transportation, which is lower in cost than rockets that carry satellites and faster than traditional aircraft.”
A number of Test flights of the firm’s Tianxing 1 and Tianxing 2 vehicles have been held recently.
Details on the prices people can expect for suborbital travel are currently unknown.
Last year Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane soared more than 50 miles in its first fully crewed test flight to the edge of space.
Touted as the precursor to a new era of space tourism, the company is said to be poised to begin commercial operations this year, with several hundred bookings already.
Tickets cost around £180,000 each.
Sir Richard said last year: “I've wanted to go to space since I was a kid, and I want to enable hopefully hundreds of thousands of other people over the next 100 years to be able to go to space.
"And why shouldn't they go to space? Space is extraordinary; the Universe is magnificent.
“I want people to be able to look back at our beautiful Earth and come home and work very hard to try to do magic to look after it."