Testing of SpaceShipTwo is expected to begin next year.
VOA: special.2009.12.18
While fulfilling his residency at a San Francisco hospital he was pricked by a needle used on an HIV-positive patient and endured a yearoftesting (and worry) before it could be determined the infection did not pass to him.
The Department of Homeland Security last year began testing blimps equipped with cameras and radar, similar to those used in the overseas wars, in parts of the border.