Of course you must have heard of Virgin Galactic, right? Billionaire British entrepreneur Richard Branson’s latest pet project that has been going on for the last few years which will be taking paying passengers to space and back sometime in the next one-two years. The spaceship that will be taking these passengers was being designed and built by aerospace designer Burt Rutan’s company, Scaled Composites. Today’s unveiling marks the first chance for outsiders to get a peek at the new rocket plane, which has been in development shrouded in secrecy for the last few years. Commenting on the unveiling, Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Galactic said:  “This is truly a momentous day. The team has created not only a world first but also a work of art.

The official rollout will be available exclusively for the would-be passengers who have paid $200,000 for their suborbital flight to space. The VSS Enterprise, an eight person SpaceShipTwo-class vehicle ( six passengers, two crew ) is named after its namesake from Star Trek, and is a successor to the SpaceShipOne vehicle which flew to space in 2004 to win the Ansari X Prize. The unveiling marks the first public appearance of a commercial passenger spacecraft.

Google knows how to make a gift and sweeten the deal for the jet-setter landing during the holidays season in select US airports by offering them free WiFi access. We all know how expensive WiFi could be in airports so getting the chance send an email to your family or friends that you’re safely switching planes or that you arrived safely it’s a nice thing.

A homemade helium balloon has gone lose in Colorado, this Thursday. When the experimental aircraft — which has been supposedly been built to track the weather — left ground, rumors had it that a 6 year old Falcon Heene has been accidentally carried away at 7,000 feet up in the sky.

Pilots from Jet Airways (India) Ltd. have gone on strike causing more than 130 flights from the country’s four major metros to be canceled . The 250 pilots resorted to a simulated strike and failed to show up at work today citing sickness. They’re all part of the newly formed National Aviators Guild — a union of some Jet Airways pilots — and are protesting the sacking of two of their colleagues, earlier this month.