A major travel insurance company is planning to release a Travel Insurance policy for Space Travel. Bupa who “already offers travel insurance in specialist areas such as skiing and gap year travel, is looking at the space tourist market as its next area of insurance. With Richard Branson planning flights into space as early as 2009 and test flights due to start this year space travel will soon be a reality.”

Call me cynical, but I think it’s just a ruse to get a bit of publicity for some other new Travel Insurance products they’ve slipped into their press release. The reality is even if Branson does get flights into space as early as 2009 - who’s going to be travelling on them?

Since I read this annoucement I’ve been wondering - what will the travel insurance policy cover?

Whatever is covered - I’m sure it won’t be cheap travel insurance!