Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic plans to begin powered test flights of its rocket spaceship by 2011, marking a key milestone before launching regular service, the space tourism startup’s president said Wednesday.

Original post:
Virgin Galactic to fire up SpaceShipTwo in 2011

Business article, construction, key-milestone, newsvine, president-said, space, through-scenes, tourism-startup, virgin

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic finally unveils SpaceShipTwo, a commercial rocket plane designed to launch space tourists on the ultimate thrill ride–a suborbital flight into space.

See the original post:
Virgin Galactic unveils its latest thrill ride

Sci Tech branson, commercial-rocket, finally-unveils, launch-space, plane-designed, richard-branson, space, suborbital-flight, the-ultimate, ultimate, virgin, virgin-galactic

Soldiers and residents dug through rock and debris looking for dozens of people missing when a mudslide covered a town in El Salvador.

Excerpt from:
Rescuers dig for survivors in El Salvador

Business, World article, flooded-street, newsvine, people-missing, rock-slides, virgin, way-through, World