World’s Strangest

Space travel seems almost out of vogue these days, compared with its heyday in the latter half of last century. However, Richard Branson and Burt Rutan may be about to change all that by launching commercial space travel. This may sound like a fantasy, but the world’s first commerical spacecraft was revealed by them yesterday – [...]

I thought it was a mirage the first time I saw it. I was driving through the wastes of the Mojave desert, two hours from anywhere, when off in the shimmering distance appeared the silhouettes of a hundred parked jetliners. I pulled off and tried to get closer to them, but a mean-looking perimeter fence [...]