TrekMovie.com has reported that Virgin Atlantic has christened their first private commercial passenger spacecraft with a name that resounds with many of us in the geekworld: Enterprise.

That’s right…you can book passage into space flying on a spaceship named Enterprise. How frakkin’ cool is that?!

Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Atlantic, has been working with Burt Rutan (who’s Spaceship One won the X-Prize for being the first privately built spacecraft that’s re-usable) to build Spaceship Two, which they want to use to send tourists into suborbital flights. The team unveiled that craft and then christened the ship VSS Enterprise.

After some more testing, it’s Branson’s hope to offer the first flights for paying passengers sometime in 2011. For $200,000, passengers will receive a complete training program and then take off on a suborbital flight for just a few minutes of weightlessness. Virgin Galactic reports that they have more than 300 people already wait listed for the first flights.

Richard Branson stands before the newly christened VSS Enterprise (LA Times via TrekMovie.com)

Head on over to TrekMovie.com to read the full article and see a video from the christening ceremony.