Posted on 07/26/2018 2:55:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Nice pic!
Hopefully, the ‘aabar’ doesn’t turn into ‘fubar’.
;)
Practically life size. :)
Verified virgins get to travel half fare!
SpaceX is getting PAID by the US GOVERNMENT to fly missions to the ISS. So what.
“but this is really an incredible work of technology for a private entity to pull off.”
And actually privately developed instead of developed by money from big NASA contracts.
“Yep. SpaceShipOne flew before SpaceX, but they’ve been screwing up ever since then.”
Your right. They lost a test pilot. How many pilots has SpaceX lost? Oh right... zero because they have launched ZERO.
A far better comparison would be generated revenue.
Like I said Branson’s group has been screwing up for some time.
They’ve killed people on the ground as well as the air, and they aren’t making any money.
https://www.businessinsider.com/virgin-galactic-failure-fatality-in-2007-2014-10
Considering the original Rutan design made its test flight over 14 years ago, the big screwup was in failing to get a prototype of a profitable platform into test flight at least nine years ago. They'd have owned the suborbital thrill ride biz. The likely outcome now is they'll be a footnote, even if there's never BFR point-to-point service.
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