https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/22/google-will-not-extend-lunar-xprize-deadline.html
Profit wins over science!
Sending people into orbit for a few hours is relatively cheap, and is exciting to those participating.
Taking two weeks off to land on a rock and do scientific experiments won't bring in the same kind of funding.
Topic: Virgin Galactic will send tourists into space within MONTHS... (Read 136 times)
I think SpaceX and Blue Origin will revolutionize space travel not Virgin Galactic.
Space travel... yes.
Space tourism... no.
I think SpaceX and Blue Origin will revolutionize space travel not Virgin Galactic.
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Space Travel is near. But who can afford it? Only the richest, for now at least.
It's amazing if I want to ride tourists to the moon, I also want to ride to the moon.
But how much it costs
But how much it costs
Do they accept bitcoin? 
My question exactly ; ) Cause I'd really like to go! My next achievable big dream is to experience 0G and this I'm gonna do that in the very near future!
Do they accept bitcoin?
Virgin Galactic will send tourists into space within MONTHS...
Watch the video at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/embed/video/1606508.html.
Read more at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5261965/Virgin-Galactic-set-send-tourists-space-YEAR.html.
Quote from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5261965/Virgin-Galactic-set-send-tourists-space-YEAR.html
The test, which comes more than three years since the firm's fatal crash, saw the craft manoeuvre safely to the ground from an altitude of 50,000 feet (15,000m).
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has claimed VSS Unity, the second version of the company's SpaceShipTwo, will take people on suborbital test flights by April.
So far, more than 700 affluent customers, including celebrities Brad Pitt and Katy Perry, have reserved a $250,000 (£200,000) seat on one of Virgin's space trips, with commercial flights planned for the end of the year.
Founded in 2010 with the aim of taking paying customers to space and back again, tragedy struck Virgin Galactic in 2014 when a catastrophic SpaceShipTwo test flight crash killed one pilot and seriously injured another.
It took two years for the company to regain approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly SpaceShipTwo again.
Yesterday's glide test, VSS Unity's seventh, saw the craft sent up from California's Mojave Air and Space Port attached to a twin-fuselage White Knight carrier airplane.
Once the pair reached 50,000ft (15,000m), Unity was released for an unpowered descent back to the spaceport.
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has claimed VSS Unity, the second version of the company's SpaceShipTwo, will take people on suborbital test flights by April.
So far, more than 700 affluent customers, including celebrities Brad Pitt and Katy Perry, have reserved a $250,000 (£200,000) seat on one of Virgin's space trips, with commercial flights planned for the end of the year.
Founded in 2010 with the aim of taking paying customers to space and back again, tragedy struck Virgin Galactic in 2014 when a catastrophic SpaceShipTwo test flight crash killed one pilot and seriously injured another.
It took two years for the company to regain approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly SpaceShipTwo again.
Yesterday's glide test, VSS Unity's seventh, saw the craft sent up from California's Mojave Air and Space Port attached to a twin-fuselage White Knight carrier airplane.
Once the pair reached 50,000ft (15,000m), Unity was released for an unpowered descent back to the spaceport.
Watch the video at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/embed/video/1606508.html.
Read more at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5261965/Virgin-Galactic-set-send-tourists-space-YEAR.html.
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