Summer in Space

Richard Branson, head of the Virgin group, said this week that he plans to travel to space this summer aboard his own Virgin Galactic spaceship.

"My wish is to go up on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing - that's what we're working on," he told the news agency AFP during an event to honor two Virgin Galactic pilots in Washington, D. C. The American Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.