that is true. It has taken 15 plus years. It must have cost a fortune. I wonder how long / if it will ever be able to be a commercial enterprise?
He’s putting his money where his mouth is.
Must be terrified.
https://www.virgingalactic.com/
that is true. It has taken 15 plus years. It must have cost a fortune. I wonder how long / if it will ever be able to be a commercial enterprise?
Now 3:30pm
Utter pap, VG never streamed the takeoff...what’s the point of that?
Seemed to all go like clockwork.
Congratulations to RB and the team, a great achievement.
Admirable but not heroic, unlike this.....
Felix Baumgartner.
"Red Bull Stratos - Discover the incredible story" https://www.redbull.com/int-en/proje...d-bull-stratos
Meh. One Billion dollars and never actually reached proper space.
But fair play, he followed his dream.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Would either of these experiences be worth the money? Personally, unless you are super-rich and can afford the ticket like its a bus fare, I'd say no.
I just watched some of the broadcast...pretty irritating viewing to be honest and felt like a long self-promotion reel. Some bits were cringe inducing...the choreographed Branson pitching up on a road bike, the dreadful pop concert...all very random.
Couldn't get excited about watching a close of up of Branson's face chewing on something whilst that nasal American ladies accent hurt my eardrums.
I'll agree with the 'Meh'. Obviously all the hoo-hah because it's Branson, but the 282,000 feet altitude barely qualifies as 'space'.
Especially when you compare that altitude to what an X-15 achieved 59 years ago:
A reader wonders, “Why is a MiG credited with the Absolute Altitude Record when the X-15 flew approximately 200,000 feet higher?”
It doesn’t seem fair. On July 17, 1962, American test pilot Robert White took the X-15 to an altitude of 314,688 feet. But it’s Russian pilot Alexandr Fedotov who holds the world altitude record, set on August 31, 1977, when his MiG E-266M reached a mere 123,523 feet. What gives?
The answer is simple: The way in which the two aircraft were launched puts them in different categories. The X-15 was never intended to take off under its own power; it was carried aloft by a modified B-52. So White’s record fell under the “Altitude Gain, Aeroplane Launched from a Carrier Aircraft” category (and has since been broken by Michael Melvill during his June 21, 2004 SpaceShipOne flight). Fedotov’s absolute record for altitude is for a ground-launched airplane.
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I give it a miss watching 'cos Dicky Branston gets on my t!ts a bit
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