A thread for Branson's space company.
Major test flight happening right now:
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic
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Re: Virgin Galactic
Back to Earth safely! This is the beginning of a new era of spaceflight!
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Re: Virgin Galactic
To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
Re: Virgin Galactic
To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
Re: Virgin Galactic
To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
Re: Virgin Galactic
Yikes!
To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
Re: Virgin Galactic
To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
Re: Virgin Galactic
Here's the video showing the weightlessness and viewing of the Earth via the windows the crew experienced.
To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
Re: Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic may sell $500m of shares after space success
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57810029
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57810029
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Re: Virgin Galactic
SpaceShipTwo makes first flight in nearly two years
Jeff Foust April 26, 2023
https://spacenews.com/spaceshiptwo-make ... two-years/
Jeff Foust April 26, 2023
https://spacenews.com/spaceshiptwo-make ... two-years/
WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spaceplane flew freely for the first time in nearly two years April 26 on a glide flight that prepares the company for powered flights and commercial service.
The company’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle, VSS Unity, was carried aloft by the VMS Eve mothership aircraft flying out of Spaceport America in New Mexico. Unity released from the plane at 9:47 a.m. Eastern at an altitude of 14,300 meters and glided to a runway landing back at the spaceport nine minutes later.
Virgin Galactic pilots CJ Sturckow and Nicola Pecile were at the controls of VSS Unity during the test flight, while company pilots Kelly Latimer and Jameel Janjua were flying VMS Eve.