The Plane That Will Take Us To Space

on the virgin galactic site it says that one ride is $200,000 with a $20,000 deposit
 
just give it a month or so and then youll see KANYE or WEEZY coppin then everyone willwanna ride SMH
 
Originally Posted by kix4kix

I wouldn't let that thing take me to Chicago.
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Originally Posted by milestailsprowe

Originally Posted by pftjordans

oh yeah ... how much...?
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a hundred GS for a day and a couple of gs for a couple of mins
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^ yeah ... well hopefully in a couple a years it becomes main stream to travel via outer space n at lower cost... i'll hold my cash till then .. Who doeswant to experience space if the opportunity arise .....?
 
i heard about this plane!

seen it on the discovery channel.

but the thing is dudes probably thinking they going deep into space like by the moon or something.
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but really the plane is only suppose to take you just high enough to where there is no gravity.

they said the jet from the transformers movie (JetFire) can do the samething as this plane but it just cant go as high to the no gravity level
 
This is crazy. Wonder what the cause of it was

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/vi...spaceshiptwo-crashes-1-dead-1-injured-n238376

Virigin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane exploded and crashed during a test flight on Friday, killing one crew member and seriously injuring another, authorities said.

The explosion scattered debris across a two-mile swath of the desert floor outside Mojave, California, and came after the plane was released from its WhiteKnightTwo carrier airplane. SpaceShipTwo was testing its rocket engine in flight for the first time in more than nine months.

"During the test, the vehicle suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of the vehicle," Virgin Galactic said in a statement. "The WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft landed safely. Our first concern is the status of the pilots."

Jesse Borne, an officer at the California Highway Patrol, told NBC News that there was one fatality and one major injury.

The flight originated from the Mojave Air and Space Port, about 95 miles (150 kilometers) north of Los Angeles. The Federal Aviation Administration said two crew members were aboard SpaceShipTwo — which is consistent with Virgin Galactic's practice of having two test pilots who are equipped with parachutes. The pilots have not yet been identified.

Sir Richard Branson going into space in early 2015
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Photographer Ken Brown, who was covering the test flight, told NBC News that he saw an explosion high in the air and later came upon SpaceShipTwo debris scattered across a small area of the desert. The Mojave airport's director, Stuart Witt, said the craft crashed north of Mojave. He deferred further comment pending a news conference that is scheduled for 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET).

Keith Holloway, a Washington-based spokesman for the National Transportation and Safety Board, said "we are in the process of collecting information." The FAA said it was also investigating the incident.
New kind of fuel tested

During the nine months since the previous rocket-powered test in January, Virgin Galactic switched SpaceShipTwo's fuel mixture from a rubber-based compound to a plastic-based mix — in hopes that the new formulation would boost the hybrid rocket engine's performance.

Before Friday's flight, the most recent aerial outing was on Oct. 7, when SpaceShipTwo took an unpowered, gliding flight back to the Mojave runway.

The latest test got off to a slow start. SpaceShipTwo spent more than three hours on the Mojave runway, slung beneath its WhiteKnightTwo mothership, while the ground team assessed whether the weather was right for flight. The go-ahead was finally given for takeoff at 9:19 a.m. PT (12:19 p.m. ET).

It took WhiteKnightTwo about 45 minutes to get to 50,000 feet, the altitude at which it released SpaceShipTwo for free flight.

The flight was part of Virgin Galactic's long-running program to test SpaceShipTwo in preparation for suborbital trips to the edge of outer space. Virgin Galactic had said the first trip to an outer-space altitude — usually defined as 100 kilometers, or 62 miles — could have taken place before the end of the year, depending on how the tests went. The company's billionaire founder, Richard Branson, was hoping to ride on the first commercial flight next year.

More than 700 customers have paid as much as $250,000 for a ride on the rocket plane.
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Probably one side of the engine was giving off more thrust then the other side causing it to break off? Either way I don't think we ready for space cruising yet. Specially 200,000? What kind of celebrity or rich dude would take a ride up to space knowing it might be your last. pretty big risk taking.
 
That thing don't look like it can go in to space.


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Probably one side of the engine was giving off more thrust then the other side causing it to break off? Either way I don't think we ready for space cruising yet. Specially 200,000? What kind of celebrity or rich dude would take a ride up to space knowing it might be your last. pretty big risk taking.
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We should be working on teleportation technology if you ask me.
 
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