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For the first time in a very long time, Sir Richard Branson has built some good news from the spaceport in the Mojave Desert at 7:11 Pacific time Thursday, was able to start his company Virgin Galactic, finally honest with astronauts -goodness -to-goodness honestly room. Art. Maybe. If you are really on a classification, really generous curve. But that’s not the way you breath Framed news. Naked Flight facts are not in dispute and indeed equal to the technology bit ‘a sent and fly. Virgin Galactic spaceship VSS eight seats Unity, was born with drivers Mark “forger” Stucky and C. J. Sturckow on board, the height of WhiteKnightTwo mother. At an altitude of 43,000 feet, the mother ship has released the unit, fired the pilots their engines and speed of Mach 2.9, or nearly three times the speed of sound. The ship rose to a maximum height of 51.4 miles and performed a graceful backflip in almost weightlessness before returning home safely. Nice and probably if you are a pilot of great experience and well trained, have a lot of fun to Stucky, a former US Air Force pilot and Sturckow, a former NASA astronaut. Sturckow had been in four different missions in space, Stucky had never been. Both were technical credit data for a space flight on Thursday, as the US government, at least you can see a few sprigs of formal 50 miles as the edge of space. The goal for Virgin Galactic as it did for the company was the foundation of the system is safe and to prove reliably and to start flying tourists to pay $250,000 for their ability to pins astronauts also get courtesy of a quarter of a million dollars vacation, which will last about 20 minutes. So far 600 people have signed and put a down payment. This, not to put a point on it-end can be a bad business model. Start with the timeline. The chatter today is that Virgin Galactic could take “a few months away” from his first group of tourists in space. But the company has developed in a few months for a long, long time. The hype began in 2004, acquired the Branson technology that, in the same year, allowed SpaceShipOne, built by Scaled Composites of Mojave-based win the Ansari X Prize for the first private vehicle always send an astronaut over the threshold in space, by 2008, Branson was the prediction that passengers would begin flying within 18 months and the first of the 600 tourists began signing. By 2009, the promise for 2011. The year was 2014 Branson and Virgin suffered a devastating setback when an accident killed from a previous version of a pilot satellite and injuring another. Virgin gave quietly on time limits; Also in anticipation of Thursday’s test, the company covered a statement pointed out that the release of “incremental flight test programs are by definition open and, to a large extent each test depends on the test data that precedes it.” Nothing on Thursday the company was successful in flushing, people should get on what is now a waiting list box for 10 years. This is a good thing, because every day that do not go on another day to consider whether they should go. The space is incredibly hard, wild and dangerous blocking an innovative technology that does not require heat for thousands or millions of gallons of fuel and regulation hurl huge savage machines-will always accelerates. A virgin flight passengers will be subject not only to the speed of over 2,000 mph, but G peak load to six, which means if you weigh 150 pounds on Earth, you will feel like you weigh 900 pounds. Astronauts and commercial pilots can eat are g, as well as in both centrifugal and training in flight, but, see above: “astronauts and professional pilots” Again there is the question of what constitutes space at all. The 50-mile limit is a practical limit for Virgin, but crashes and prior to cooking so that the cosmic book that makes things seem easier than they are long-standing. The most widely accepted definition of the lower limit of the room, as the physical line to Kármán-known Hungarian-American mathematician and Theodore von Karman-62 miles, or 100 km. Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, got the country into suborbital space game with a 1961 mission that reaches a maximum altitude of 101.2 miles. Even winning SpaceShipOne flight that almost not climb so high, eliminated with relative ease the Kármán line 69.6 miles. Virgin flight Thursday fell nearly 11 miles short of the mark. The ordinary 100 km long distance you might have a bit ‘arbitrary for him, but it is a definition that is available for a long period of time and to change is now its own kind of arbitrary. to have everything Sturckow and Stucky escape is, wherever they say they are, nothing missing out denying that many people to follow there. Ahead flight Thursday speculated already handicappers, if it were Branson and Virgin or Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin rocket to fly business first paying passengers. Branson himself, whose speakers, all right, cautious words to say today, is the latest record in May as saying the two are “neck and neck”. You might benefit from asking why. Both men are in a race of small arms for the very low-stakes 50 miles lob shot at a sort busy, kinda place a pale parody of the US-Soviet competition, the Americans got to the moon. In both cases there is a mortal danger; only in one case it was worth it.
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