Private spaceship makes 1st solo glide flight

[Hot Mega]

Got $200K? Get in line..there are almost 400 people ahead of you. The problem I think is it's not like fucking where it's exciting and different every time...There are only so many people who are going to buy this ticket and I mean, do want to do it over and over again at that price?

MOJAVE, Calif. – Virgin Galactic's space tourism rocket SpaceShipTwo achieved its first solo glide flight Sunday, marking another step in the company's eventual plans to fly paying passengers.

SpaceShipTwo was carried aloft by its mothership to an altitude of 45,000 feet and released over the Mojave Desert. After the separation, SpaceShipTwo, manned by two pilots, flew freely for 11 minutes before landing at an airport runway followed by the mothership.

The entire test flight lasted about 25 minutes.

"It flew beautifully," said Virgin Galactic chief executive George Whitesides.

The six-passenger SpaceShipTwo is undergoing rigorous testing before it can carry tourists to space. In the latest test, SpaceShipTwo did not fire its rocket engine to climb to space.

Until now, SpaceShipTwo has flown attached to the wing of its special jet-powered mothership dubbed WhiteKnightTwo. Sunday was the first time the spaceship flew on its own.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20101011/ap_tr_ge/us_travel_brief_space_tourism_1

 

[tiger1977]

I just read that on yahoo as well. This is crazy. As soon as I save up $200, I'm going to find a more useful way to utilize that money.

 

[Neutron66]

This is awesome.

Even though I'll never be on it, it's still awesome people are doing it.

 

[Mr Dragon]

sounds kelw

 

[~~whimsy~~]

I prefer to spend that kind of money to do a Joseph Kittinger-style flight/dive. :yesyes:

 

[lurkingdirk]

If I had the money, I'd do it in a second.

:thumbsup:

 

[Baill Inneraora]

I would rather hire a $20 hooker 10,000 times.

 

[vodkazvictim]

I would rather hire a $20 hooker 10,000 times.

So you have free healthcare?

 

[Hot Mega]

So you have free healthcare?

I figured you, hedonis and Galactic were some place circle jerking over this story.

 

[lurkingdirk]

I figured you, hedonis and Galactic were some place circle jerking over this story.

:rofl2:
Yeeeeeehaw.

 

[BlueBalls]

Meh.... I've been to space and I have to say ... I didn't like it.

 

[lurkingdirk]

Meh.... I've been to space and I have to say ... I didn't like it.

No one cares, miss "I've done everything."


Bitch.

 

[BlueBalls]

No one cares, miss "I've done everything."


Bitch.

Pfft! If you want to carry on wallowing in your own self serving ignorance, in this completely mundane universe that you and all of those like you blanket yourselves in, go right ahead honey.

I'm going to be visiting timeless, spacelessness for two weeks.

Ta-taa...

 

[lurkingdirk]

Pfft! If you want to carry on wallowing in your own self serving ignorance, in this completely mundane universe that you and all of those like you blanket yourselves in, go right ahead honey.

I'm going to be visiting timeless, spacelessness for two weeks.

Ta-taa...

I'm coming with you this time. You've lied about this too often.

There is no such thing as a tesseract.

 

[Ace Bandage]

$200K? :eek: That's like 110,000 cans of SpaghettiO's...

 

[BlueBalls]

I'm coming with you this time. You've lied about this too often.

There is no such thing as a tesseract.

God doesn't like new people. So whatever happens when we get there is entirely your fault and everyone who reads this is witnesses to that fact.

So people, in the event of humanity and the entirety of life itself being wiped out in an instant. You know exactly who to blame.

No such thing as a tesseract, you say? In the event Mr Fitzwallace (that's Gods last name by the way (I know I was shocked to, how random)) is in a good mood and welcomes us both into his humble abode without any voices raised or SpaceCats being thrown... you'll see.

 

[vodkazvictim]

I figured you, hedonis and Galactic were some place circle jerking over this story.

I'd write a witty comeback.... but I can't.

 

[Red XXX]

Give me Concorde any day

 

[HELLRAISER]

what a jip

 

[Member442]

That's cool but I'll never do it. I like my feet on the ground or wrapped around a guy that can go for hours.