Virgin Galactic unveils SS2

[L.C.]

>> Here <<

 

EDIT: Typo in title. Change "involves" to "unveils"

[whalz]

fixed. (didnt really)

 

but damn thats a weird/sexy plane looking thing

[★ Bak]

virgin interactive entertainment unveils subspace 2?!? Oh wait never mind...

 

cool anyway

[🜲 Samapico]

But... wtf is Virgin Galactic? When did Virgin decide to get in the space tourism business?

[Synister]

But... wtf is Virgin Galactic? When did Virgin decide to get in the space tourism business?

there was a article about the president of virgin and he was saying how his dream was to be the first to start tourism flights into space.. this was awhile ago but within the year that I read it.

 

Looks like his dream came true, of course these flights will cost upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars but yea..

[★ Lynx]

virgin interactive entertainment unveils subspace 2?!? Oh wait never mind...

 

cool anyway

 

Exactly what I thought...

 

 

But... wtf is Virgin Galactic? When did Virgin decide to get in the space tourism business?

 

I believe that they're into flying planes right on the edge of the atmosphere, I read about this in a magazine years ago. This may have been just when they were announcing plans of doing it, though.

[★ Dav]

There have been articles in the news about this fora couple of years. Space ship 2/Virgin galactic have been long in the pipleing since space ship one broke the record for the first private craft to get into space.

[General Shadow]

There have been articles in the news about this fora couple of years. Space ship 2/Virgin galactic have been long in the pipleing since space ship one broke the record for the first private craft to get into space.

When was that?

[L.C.]

There have been articles in the news about this fora couple of years. Space ship 2/Virgin galactic have been long in the pipleing since space ship one broke the record for the first private craft to get into space.

When was that?

I posted about this, I think, two years ago at http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=13930&view=&hl=virgin&fromsearch=1.

[General Shadow]

Hmmm....from computer games to space flight...

[★ Blocks]

Pretty awesome. I went out to the Mojave Desert for the first spaceflight of SpaceShipOne in 2004, which was exciting.

 

As cool as SpaceShipTwo and space tourism is, I am at least an order of magnitude more excited about the (successful) efforts of SpaceX at reaching low Earth orbit with a privately developed vehicle.

[Gravitron]

from computer games to space flight

 

Lord British (the father of Ultima series) has already done it with a different company, which has catered to several clients by now; rumored to cost around 20-30 million USD.