Heathrow Terminal 5 - COMING SOON

The British Airways-dedicated Terminal 5 is due to open at the end of March 2008 and will revolutionise the way that passengers experience air travel.

The £4.3bn high-tech Terminal 5 will offer British Airways customers unparalleled standards of passenger comfort and convenience with smoother check-in processes, a state-of-the-art baggage management system and the largest lounge complex in the world, all contributing towards an outstanding Terminal 5 experience.

Shopping at Terminal 5 is also sure to excite, with a range of luxury offerings including Harrods, Coach and Prada, to more high street names such as Ted Baker and Reiss. And when it comes to dining, there are restaurants for all budgets, from Giraffe and Carluccio's to Caviar House and Gordon Ramsay. For a preview of the new terminal 5, click here.

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Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic's mission is to fly passengers who are not professional astronauts to an altitude slightly over 100 kilometers (62 mi) and allow them to experience weightlessness for up to 6 minutes. Each seat will be sold for US$200,000. According to Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn, the company had sold nearly 200 seats as of November 2007. The first flight is planned for 2009.

Virgin Galactic is aiming to be the first space tourism company specializing in the provision of sub-orbital flights to the public. While orbital flights can be made by budding space tourists through the Russian Space Agency, there are presently no operational craft capable of sub-orbital flight aside from SpaceShipOne. However, EADS are currently working on a competing sub-orbital craft. Given that SpaceShipOne was designed for a very specific task, Virgin Galactic have commissioned Burt Rutan to design a newer, bigger and better version of his suborbital craft, called SpaceShipTwo. It is this eight seater craft, seating 2 pilots and 6 passengers, which will be used by Virgin Galactic passengers.

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