With Richard Branson and Burt Rutan pioneering space tourism, reaching for the moon is no longer just a metaphor. And the company has now launched the WhiteKnightTwo, the workhorse aircraft that will launch SpaceShipTwo into suborbital space. The craft.

The $200,000 entry ticket to a space trip with Virgin Galactic was getting to be kind of a turn off for many potential flyers. So, Virgin opened up their heart to future space flyer wannabes and introduced a new scheme under which frequent flyers would.

For spaceships, we do need a spaceport not an airport. Virgin Galactic had already revealed its plans to build a Spaceport in New Mexico. And now, a winning design from URS Corporation has been selected from amongst an international field of eleven...

The space tourism industry heats up with the announcement of a new space jet by EADS Astrium. This is the second company after Virgin Galactic, which has taken the "airplane to rocket" approach. The four-passenger jet looks like a normal aircraft...