Still trying to catch up with a backlog of Branson news, plus some operations work as well— We’ve moved to a new hosting provider, so drop us an email at editors @ if you notice any weirdness. In last week’s news, though, Sigourney Weaver is apparently the latest celebrity aspiring astronaut, according to the UK tabloid, The Sun (which admittedly seems like a pretty sketchy source to be quoting here, except that XPrizeNews also quoted them).

Weaver, 55, told aides to contact the company and book her a £115,000 seat on Virgin’s "VSS Enterprise" craft, based on Burt Rutan’s X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne. A Virgin spokesperson confirmed that first contact had been made, and added: "We’d be delighted to take Sigourney back to visit the Aliens."

Hopefully the VSS Enterprise has airlocks well-designed for blowing aliens back out into space. And with Sigourney Weaver, William Shatner, and a few more sci-fi icons, you could put together one hell of a sci-fi themed space cruise.