Medicine & TechnologyVirgin Galactic revealed its 2nd piloted space plane, VSS Imagine, its shiny silver vehicle. Like the VSS Unity, this spacecraft is designed to take humans and scientific experiments to and from suborbital space.
After some technical tweaks that delayed flight testing of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, the company has announced that it will not be sending tourists to space this year.
Sir Richard Branson is quite upbeat about the prospects of his company, Virgin Galactic, launching its first test flight into suborbital space with passengers. He, along with a few family members, will be the first passengers to travel on this flight.