WE'VE sent a lot of things into space. Dogs, chimps, satellites, rockets, LEGO and hopefully soon - a TARDIS.

For those not in the know, the TARDIS (which stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space) is the flying time machine of the Doctor Who series. It also resembles a 1960s police phone box.

It can travel through time, is bigger on the inside, and until now it has never left the earth's atmosphere. (Well, at least not in real life).

Well now a production company called 3 Stags has started a campaign to launch a TARDIS into space to celebrate the series' 50th anniversary.

The group has already built a TARDIS satellite out of light weight aluminium. The light on the top of the box is powered by solar panels. The team has also equipped the blue box with a GoPro camera to record its flight from earth. It also contains a hard drive ready to be installed with information.

Now all that's left is to find a rocket to get it into Earth's upper atmosphere. The only catch? It's going to cost $33,000.

"We're not talking about sticking a little, plastic TARDIS on top of a model rocket and shooting it really high into the sky (although that would be wicked cool)," the team wrote on their Kickstarter page. "And we're not going to tie a TARDIS to a weather balloon (which, by the way would also be pretty flippin' awesome)."

"No, we're putting a TARDIS into the payload bay of a real, actual, honest-to-goodness, rocket, and launching it into a Low Earth Orbit."

Low-Earth Orbit is the altitude at which satellites orbit the earth, transmitting and recording information.

"We're talking about sending this thing, really, really, high ... space high," the team wrote on Kickstarter. "The international space station is in Low Earth Orbit. Seriously. The guys on the International Space Station will be able to look out their windows and say: "Check out that police call box floating by."

So far the team has only raised $1,365. Their goal is still a long way off. But with 26 days still to go there's plenty of time to donate.

Get involved. Get on-board. Allons-y!