Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo getting ready for test flights

Virgin Galactic's sub-orbital space plane, the SpaceShipTwo, is preparing for test flights – and Richard Branson's company hopes it will be taking tourists into space by 2012.
For a mere $200,000 (£120,000), wealthy funseekers will be able to enjoy a few minutes' weightlessness, staring out at the curve of the Earth from under a black sky.

Full article by Tom Chivers on The Telegraph