Branson's Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Test is A-OK!
Talk about technology and its amazing leaps! Cosmic Log (authored by Alan Boyle) has posted a video and written of the feathered flight of SpaceShipTwo (SS2), a major step in the push for commercial space flight!
It'll cost you $200,000 to fly when the VSS Enterprise (SS2) finally flies as a commercial ship, but hey, if you have the excess cash laying around, go for it!
I always wished, growing up, that I could go to space and visit other planets. It likely won't physically happen for me, but THANK YOU Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, David Brin and the other two of The Three B's (Greg Bear and Gregory Benford are the other two), as well as hundreds of other SF authors as well as comic book writers and artists for the rides you gave me in my mind!
Here's the video:
I love the transport plane with its twin fuselages. Watch for the short flash of the spacecraft's engines after it is dropped. Cool!
I'm such a geek.
It'll cost you $200,000 to fly when the VSS Enterprise (SS2) finally flies as a commercial ship, but hey, if you have the excess cash laying around, go for it!
I always wished, growing up, that I could go to space and visit other planets. It likely won't physically happen for me, but THANK YOU Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, David Brin and the other two of The Three B's (Greg Bear and Gregory Benford are the other two), as well as hundreds of other SF authors as well as comic book writers and artists for the rides you gave me in my mind!
Here's the video:
I love the transport plane with its twin fuselages. Watch for the short flash of the spacecraft's engines after it is dropped. Cool!
I'm such a geek.
Posted by Sid Plait at 5/19/2011 9:19 AM 
Categories: Star Trek, Influences, Astronomy, All, Science, Miscellaneous, Good News!, OMG!
Tags: Alan Boyle Cosmic Log Robert Heinlein Ray Bradbury Arthur C Clarke Larry Niven Isaac Asimov David Brin Greg Bear Gregory Benford
Categories: Star Trek, Influences, Astronomy, All, Science, Miscellaneous, Good News!, OMG!
Tags: Alan Boyle Cosmic Log Robert Heinlein Ray Bradbury Arthur C Clarke Larry Niven Isaac Asimov David Brin Greg Bear Gregory Benford
This is sooo fricken cool. I love Branson. I just finished reading his book, "How I lost my virginity". My favorite quote from him is, "Screw it! Let's do it!". What a rogue. I've been following this for a while now. I hope they succeed long term. We need a viable commercial space industry.
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Yes, we do. It should have started a long time ago, but competition with NASA wasn't allowed. Harriman and many other Heinlein characters would be proud!
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Yo Sid, it's been some time since I had sent you an e-mail pointing out the misplaced apostrophe in the "it's" at the paragraph below the video. It's still there! Sheesh!
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No, it isn't.
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