WELCOME to the age of space travel!

If you want to reach for the stars, a space journey -- which will set you back a mere £100,000 -- could soon be on your Christmas present list.

Amazingly, you can already buy your way onto a waiting list for the first commercial space flights through high street retailer W H Smith.

Trips could start within five years.

And with a whole week's worth of training for the 45-minute flight thrown in with the price, could you resist the chance to defy gravity?

Chorley Citizen reporter Nikki Masters donned her moon boots to step out on the streets to ask locals if they would enjoy the cosmic trip!

Adventurous Donna Townson, 32, was excited by the trip.

She said: "Yes, I probably would go in to space.

"I would like to go to the moon because it just looks so beautiful, and I would probably like to take my nine-year-old son, Bobby, with me."

The shop manageress from Heath Charnock continued: "I do think it will be a long time before space travel is common though.

"I don't think it will happen in my time. It just does not seem possible.

"I have been to NASA and we were due to see the first ever shuttle lift off -- but unfortunately it was delayed!"

But Terence Barrett, 63, of Moor Road, Chorley, has his feet well and truly planted on the ground.

He said: "It's all wishful thinking. If someone would pay for me, yes, I would go.

"But it is a great deal of of money, isn't it?"

And if he could choose, where in the solar system would he visit?

Given the choice I would like to go to the moon to see all the craters. I am not sure who I would take though."

Saul Myerscough, a 32-year-old Chorley hotelier, would take as many people as possible.

He said: "I would definitely go -- I would absolutely love to do it and I would take my wife and any friends who wanted to come.

"I would like to walk on the moon, and see everything from there."

But Chorley pensioner, Michael Williams, 65, said the prospect of travelling to space was not a very appealing one to him.

"I won't be buying it! If I was handed a ticket I might give it a go.

"But I don't know what it's like up there," he said.

What if there was a choice of destinations?

"I don't know where I'd choose. It's not like saying 'we'll go to Skegness this year because it had better weather than Blackpool!'" he joked.

But Mr Williams certainly would not miss his soccer.

"I would probably take Alex Ferguson with me, because if there's anybody up there they might need teaching football."