Taking off Travel blog

Will there be airport parking - or should that be spaceport parking - problems in space? Just as the early inventors of the car would have found it hard to imagine the chaos that affects our roads at rush hour and the need to pre book off airport parking just to be able to make a flight, we may find it hard to imagine that one day similar problems may affect space. But with recent developments, it has to be a possibility.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two

Virgin Galactic’s Space Ship Two (surely it could have a more interesting name) is being unveiled this week in the Mojave Desert after five years of top secret development work. It’s the world’s first commercial space craft, bringing us one step nearer to the future envisaged by Star Trek and similar TV programs. Like much of what used to be science fiction, scientific developments have put mass space travel within reach - quite close reach, as Virgin Galactic is planning to run two test flights next year and take the ship to maximum altitude in 2011. Read more »