Virgin Galactic (part of the Virgin Group) has unveiled SpaceShipTwo (SS2), the world’s first manned commercial spaceship. The company aims to create “a new era in commercial space flight with daily space tourism flights set to commence from Spaceport America” (in New Mexico) by 2012.  Click Here for more pictures.

A video to illustrate how small we (on earth) are in the universe we live in.

Space Shuttle Endeavour, a project created and developed by NASA (the U.S government’s space agency), has successfully launched after several failed attempts (due to mechanical issues such as fuel leaks, and threats from bad weather). There has been 22 Endeavour launches before this one, each with its own mission. The 23rd mission (named STS-127) aims to upgrade the Japanese Experiment Module (pronounced Kibō in Japanese), which is a test lab that allows for materials to be tested with the environment of space. Another task will be to update the solar-array batteries used to power the space station. Good luck to the seven crew members, and we hope our readers enjoy the HD video provided by NASA.

Download The Official STS-127 Press Kit