2nd powered test flight for Virgin Galactic spaceship

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

MOJAVE, Calif. — Virgin Galactic has conducted the second rocket-powered test flight of its tourism spaceship in the skies over California.

The company says VSS Unity fired its rocket motor for 31 seconds and climbed to an altitude of 114,500 feet (34,899 meters) on Tuesday, then glided to a landing at Mojave Air and Space Port.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson was on hand to greet pilots Dave Mackay and Mark “Forger” Stucky as well as the crew of the carrier aircraft that launched the spaceship.

Tuesday’s flight came less than two months after the first powered flight on April 5. Virgin Galactic says that brings the company closer to its goal of being able to fly its spacecraft more frequently than has been typical for human spaceflight.

Read more: https://www.abqjournal.com/1177951/2nd-powered-test-flight-for-virgin-galactic-spaceship.html

[ProudLib72]

1. So cool looking!

Hurry it up, Branson! I want to ride into space already!

[truthisfreedom]

2. Fun! Toys for the ultra-rich to blow cash that could save our poor

on going half-assways into space for a few minutes! Yay!

[meadowlander]

3. At least it has a conceivable practical application.

Better than Trump gold plating his toilet or emerald studded iPhones.

[hunter]

5. Aircraft carriers and the F-35...

... U.S.A.'s Maginot Line.

Yay!

Rocket tourism doesn't bother me so much.

I'd rather see engineers and techs working on projects like this than bloated, useless, and obsolete military projects.

[LanternWaste]

7. One imagines...

One imagines a sub-Saharan subsistence farmer holding the same sentiment in regards to lazy Americans making empty criticisms on a message board... though I doubt he would care about, or comment on your 'half-assway'.

But at least we creatively rationalize our excesses as educational.

[Ohiya]

4. All right!

If I start saving my money now and I live to be 300 I could afford a flight on this. I can't wait!

[bluestarone]

6. I always thought if it weren't for our tax dollars way back then

We wouldn't be where we are at today!! Yet all Corporations are the benefactors!! Just my opinion!