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    WATCH LIVE: Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream

    "Join us July 11th for our first fully crewed rocket powered test flight, and the beginning of a new space age.

    Aboard #Unity22 will be our team of two pilots and four mission specialists, including Sir Richard Branson. They will put our Future Astronaut spaceflight experience to a final test, while giving the world a preview of the life-changing experience."

    p.s. this is why you should never announce your plans in public! Bezos must be boiling rn

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    • Literally the only outcome I want from this third-league dick swinging competition is for both Bezos and Branson to blow up.Nairn
    • Nairn this space race is actually good for the people. NASA would never invest this much in space travel...grafician
    • Neither have these guys - neither of the machines involved in this 'race' actually go to space. They just go up quite high, then come down again.Nairn
    • It's basically useless tech that pitifully mimics useful rocketry for the idle bemusement of the 0.0001%.Nairn
    • BO has been in business for two decades and hasn't put a single thing in orbit and are now holding back ULA's, and hence America's non-SpaceX ambitionsNairn
    • Virgin diverted into plane-launched small rocketry, so have put something in orbit at least, but that's a different department to <this shit.Nairn
    • It’s safe to consider their ticket price and presence to be investments in private space enterprise. Safely.monospaced
    • I’ve been following this too, and Branson has managed to get his enterprise publicly funded as well from people as pathetic as me.monospaced
    • While it can be called going up really high, it is out of the atmosphere and they are calling it a test flight. It’s low orbit for sure and a step toward legitmonospaced
    • 'Low orbit' and going up quite high are entirely different things - the energy requirements are an order of magnitude different.Nairn
    • Understood. I was under the impression this launch was out of the atmosphere and free from pull of gravity (feels like true weightlessness). Still learning ;)monospaced
    • Well, it is - anything at the top/descent of a parabolic trajectory will provide a sense of weightlessness - hence that 'Vomit Comet' plane thing, which seems..Nairn
    • ..to me a much better waste of a chunk of money to gain the sensation.Nairn
    • The only company that seems to be in reach of what we'd really want from an expensive space jolly is still... SpaceX.
      Starship could change everything.      Nairn
    • And if they sort that out, then they create a new tourism industry thta actually, directly funds the immediate technology being used. Unlike BO and Virgin.Nairn
    • Cool. What is BO?monospaced
    • Blue Origin! :)Nairn
    • That’s rightmonospaced
    • 1. For "space tourism" we can just use high-altitude balloons rn
      2. BO was subsidised anyway because competition      grafician
    • First "space tourism" company would get madly rich just by marketing "is the Earth really flat? See for yourself for $100k"grafician
    • Hahaha seriouslymonospaced
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