Space tourism moves closer to reality

[GoFlyKiteNow]

Virgin spacecraft makes maiden voyage

Inching ever closer to taking customers on commercial spaceflights, Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise took off on its first "captive carry" test flight at 7:05 a.m. Monday from the Mojave Air and Spaceport in Mojave, Calif.

The spacecraft, which was unveiled on December 7, 2009, took the journey while remaining attached to its mothership, a carrier aircraft called VMS Eve.

When commercial flights begin, the vehicle will cruise to an altitude of 50,000 feet, where the VSS Enterprise, powered by a hybrid rocket motor, will detach from the mothership and launch passengers into suborbital space.

 

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I reiterate that you should still stay down-to-Earth, barbarians.

There must be an intergalactic council to strongly put down and stop the dumbest life forms in the universe (humans) from corrupting other pure planets that have no need of their intervention.

 

[Varuna]

I reiterate that you should still stay down-to-Earth, barbarians.

There must be an intergalactic council to strongly put down and stop the dumbest life forms in the universe (humans) from corrupting other pure planets that have no need of their intervention.

Yes, absolutely. This is a profit-driven and bloody greedy idea speared to entice the rich who have too much money and do not know how to squander. Each trip per pax costs tens, if not, hundreds of thousands of dollars and what these morons get is brief weightlessness and a dumb view of pitch darkness and maybe of earth and some other planets. The money could have been well spent to save the earth or do some good to feed the hungry many times over.