Harry Potter author JK Rowling said no to space trip

JK ROWLING has revealed that she turned down a trip on a spaceship.

The Harry Potter author, whose first novel for adults was published on Thursday, told fans she had been given the chance to go into space.

“I was offered a seat. For a mere £2 million, I could have been on the shuttle, but I turned it down,” she said.

Rowling was speaking at an event for fans at London’s Southbank Centre on the day The Casual Vacancy was published.

Business tycoon Sir Richard Branson is one of the driving forces behind the idea of space tourism.

His Virgin Galactic scheme will take travellers 60 miles up into space during a two-hour flight on the SpaceShipTwo suborbital plane by the end of next year, at £128,000 a trip.