Virgin Galactic - First full crew space flight with Branson on-board
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...but Amazon can't add protection and ship something without it looking like garbage before USPS even gets their crushing hands on it.
preeetty sure she knows more about these "things" than you being a virgin engineer and all. But yeah she has to fill all that time that was meant for richard speaking etc.
Wonder if people would have posted the same shit posts if she were a man
Other than the cameras and sound being fucked that was a smooth take off and landing. Couldn't have asked for better really.
Fair enough. I'm following multiple threads at the same time lol.
That was a cool trip. Glad I watched. Could have done without all the stuff surrounding it it but whatevs
im sure she does.
however that was a completely boneheaded comment by her.
im also not convinced these passengers are "astronauts", in the true sense.
Can you point to anyone who said the one thing AND the other?
its either hating both (billionaires and all) or liking both from what I see
They're treating this like they're the first people to go to space since Apollo 11. Was there something about this that was unique from other recent space tourism? Did they go higher or something? Or is it just that it was Richard Branson?
SpaceX will be sending some people into actual orbit later this year. But it will be MUCH more expensive.
I'm happy to know that within my lifetime it will be possible for me to experience real micro gravity and see the earth from sub orbit/orbit someday. It's really something for all those people who dreamed of being an astronaut as a child but didn't/couldn't become one.
Fake Edit: Before someone says it's 250K per ticket, I'm taking about the future implication of this. It'll become relatively affordable one day within our lifetime.
Fake Edit: Before someone says it's 250K per ticket, I'm taking about the future implication of this. It'll become relatively affordable one day within our lifetime.
These are civilians sent out by a company, rather than government organisation. Commercial orbital/sub orbital flight is new.
I feel Colbert is taking the piss out of everyone here, he cant be serious with this line reading?
they were not in space, it was a really cool sub-orbital flight.
were they actually "wieghtless", or was it a better version of the vomit comet?
Increased space demand will lead to companies supplying more opportunities for launch, and more innovation. Which will lead to a cheaper, more healthy, and vigorous space economy.
(At least I hope so.)
How many sub orbital flights launched by a civilian company with civilian/s onboard can you list?
It's sub orbital now, it'll be orbital one day.
Oh there's another one :/
Can't have a space launch without a mini concert in the middle of nowhere.
Can't have a space launch without a mini concert in the middle of nowhere.
Pretty cool honestly. I see people saying they hope Bezos experience is better. What's so much different than what this was? Isn't bezos just going up to a similar distance to experience a few minutes of weightlessness as well? Only difference is the means to get up there correct?
it just needed to be long enough for a billionaire to stroke his ego.
Ignore this, I thought they went higher than they did.
Space is not defined by whether you're in orbit or not.
And yes, their experience of weightlessness was the same as the vomit comet, but this is no different than any other microgravity effect. The ISS astronauts are only weightless because the ISS is falling at the same rate it's travelling around the Earth.
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During one of the times the camera worked I saw a shoe drift past.
During the other times the camera worked, Branson kept holding hands with Sirisha Bandla, one of the crew members.