Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company within Virgin Group, launched a spaceship into sub-orbit on Monday. They’ve been trying to design a commercial aircraft capable of launching tourists into space since 2004. The spaceship, called SpaceShip Two, completed its first powered flight over the Mojave Desert on Monday. The founder of Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, said that the flight could not have gone more smoothly. A special twin-fuselage jet carried SpaceShipTwo for forty-five minutes as they climbed to an altitude of 47,000 feet. The spacecraft was then released from the jet and…

Virgin’s Project magazine is set to revolutionize the way we think about content consumption on the iPad with the world’s first all-digital magazine for the iPad. Or, in other words, this is something that should have happened awhile ago. Project magazine, which is a project by Virgin and Richard Branson, has been created in order to demonstrate a new age of digital publishing for the iPad (and soon the iPhone). It has been created and designed from the ground up to be displayed on digital platforms. And while this isn’t the first attempt (remember e-zines?), it surely seems to be the most ambitious….