What’s the most impressive thing you can do with your photographs? Other than printing your photos on canvas – of course! Now you can send them into space.

Yes, you read that correctly. A new firm has launched a bizarre service offering to send your snaps 70 miles into the atmosphere – that’s 8 miles more than is considered space.

Photos To Space are charging $4.95 to include each of your images on a flight which will take place in April 2011 and launch from Spaceport America, a commercial space landing field in New Mexico.

At that point your digital photographs could embark on a 15 minute flight which will see them soar to 70 miles high in around four minutes before returning to Earth.

Bosses of the firm say they “want to encourage people to become excited about the possibilities that are before us for the future of space travel” and give them something unique to do with their photography.

Anyone who pays to see one of their photos launched into space also gets a flight certificate with their photo embedded onto it, stats about the mission and a downloadable video of the rocket flight.