A California aerospace company plans to enter the space tourism industry with a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbital flights to altitudes more than 37 miles above the Earth.

A huge explosion killed two workers and critically injured four others at a Mojave Desert airport site used by a pioneering aerospace company linked to Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space tourism business.

British entrepreneur Richard Branson has unveiled an interior mock-up of the suborbital spaceship that his company will use to take paying passengers on flights into space.

STEVE FOSSETT’S latest adventure gives the millionaire yet another aviation record, adding to the many he holds as a balloonist, pilot and sailor.

The inventors and moguls of the infant space tourism industry predict there will be deaths along the way, but that it’s worth it so regular people can one day blast into outer space.

A CRAFT which promises to one day take Virgin Galactic tourists beyond the Earth’s atmosphere made a nail-biting ascent into space today.

SpaceShipOne, the craft which promises to one day take Virgin Galactic tourists beyond the Earth’s atmosphere made a nail-biting ascent into space today.

A test pilot in a stubby rocket plane will try to climb more than 60 miles over California’s Mojave Desert and punch through the atmosphere today in the first stage of a quest to win a €8m prize meant to encourage space tourism.

IT USED to be that a trip to Africa or Antarctica qualified as an exotic tourist destination.

SPACE tourism could be the next giant leap for mankind under a plan unveiled yesterday by Virgin boss Richard Branson.

Space tourism could be the next giant leap for mankind under a plan unveiled today by Virgin boss Richard Branson.

The pilot who made a pioneering commercial flight to space told today how he feared he would be killed during the mission.

SPACE tourism came a step closer yesterday when a private commercial rocket flew into the near reaches of space for the first time.

Space tourism came a step closer today when a private commercial rocket flew into the near reaches of space for the first time.

Aviation enthusiasts gathered in the Californian desert today hoping to see the first flight into space by a privately-developed manned rocket.

BRITISH mogul Richard Branson unveiled his latest flying machine yesterday a futuristic plane which he hopes will fly non-stop around the world in less than 80 hours.

A rocket plane broke the sound barrier during its first powered flight, but a partial landing gear collapse caused it to veer off its Californian desert runway.