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Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity Space Plane Aces Test Flight, Reaching Mesosphere for the 1st Time
Space.com ^
| July 26, 2018 03:26pm ET
| Hanneke Weitering,
Posted on 07/26/2018 2:55:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
07/26/2018 2:55:40 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
they will experience 5 minutes of weightlessness before gliding back down for $250,000 , money to burn ?
To: BenLurkin
Alan Sheperd got six minutes on his first flight uppy-yonder.
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posted on
07/26/2018 3:02:07 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: BenLurkin
SpaceX flies missions to the ISS.
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posted on
07/26/2018 3:04:10 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: wastedyears
Currently unmanned missions to the ISS...
To: kosciusko51
They will quit after 25 or 30 Die.
To: butlerweave
Actually preparing techs for flights across the Atlantic and Pacific. Using high paying tourists as a cash flow to support development.
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posted on
07/26/2018 3:16:14 PM PDT
by
Yulee
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/26/2018 3:23:09 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: Yulee
Sub-orbital flight to Europe?
Sweet!
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posted on
07/26/2018 3:27:59 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: butlerweave
Theyre already overbooked from some reports Ive seen. (Sorry, traveling, no links handy.)
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posted on
07/26/2018 3:39:53 PM PDT
by
piytar
(If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
To: BenLurkin
A lot of people including some Freepers may mock, but this is really an incredible work of technology for a private entity to pull off.
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posted on
07/26/2018 3:42:26 PM PDT
by
piytar
(If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/26/2018 3:47:50 PM PDT
by
antidisestablishment
( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/26/2018 3:49:03 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: antidisestablishment
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posted on
07/26/2018 3:49:34 PM PDT
by
antidisestablishment
( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
To: BenLurkin
Join the 34 Mile High Club in a spacecraft named “Virgin.” Gotta love the 21st Century!
To: Slyfox
Alan Shepard was launched in Freedom 7 after his “emergency” was taken care of. Shepard was strapped into the capsule’s seat for 8 hours due to pre-launch delays. He was forced to pee in the suit.
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posted on
07/26/2018 3:59:52 PM PDT
by
DFG
To: wastedyears
SpaceX flies missions to the ISS.
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Yep. SpaceShipOne flew before SpaceX, but they’ve been screwing up ever since then.
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posted on
07/26/2018 4:06:58 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: BenLurkin
Hoping to eventually get to the Karman Line (62 miles) so that they can claim that they were in space.
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posted on
07/26/2018 4:07:26 PM PDT
by
iowamark
To: piytar
A lot of people including some Freepers may mock, but this is really an incredible work of technology for a private entity to pull off.
...
This technology first flew 15 years ago. They haven’t advanced much since then.
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posted on
07/26/2018 4:08:34 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: BenLurkin
"Get your ticket to that 'wheel in space' while there's time; the fix is in. You'll be a witness to that 'game of chance in the sky', you know we've got to win."
"You've got to admit it; at this point in time that it's clear, the future looks bright." Song: I.G.Y, Donald Fagan, Album: The Nightfly
Since the film 2001 was released in 1968; I'm still waiting for that PanAm Clipper, and that "Wheel in space".
Sadly, I won't live to see it in my lifetime: Too little vision on the part of NASA and others, too many opportunities wasted and too much money squandered.
That said; thanks Arthur C., and Stanley K. for one heck of a visionary story that ignited and inspired the imagination of a generation.
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posted on
07/26/2018 4:59:28 PM PDT
by
Jmouse007
(Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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