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  • It doesn't look very professional... doesn't it?

  • @EvAnGeLiOn90 you mean it doesn't look very expencive? do you think it would be a better spacecraft if robots were doing the job instead of engineers?

  • @tsmedegaard i mean it looks like something that even i can build... and i'm not and engineer!

    maybe space travel are easier than we suppose!

  • hmm.. bolt ..where it goes ??! uhh!! its not needed i just trow it away :)

  • They should sell chocolate bars with golden tickets in for free rides in it... no wait... that's Charlie and the chocolate factory. Never mind.

  • the new NASA :) with interns lol or low pay like me lol

  • they do not use computers and robotized arms to assembly the plane like boeing or airbus ? is it safe to do like that ?

  • 2:45 Isn't that the drug addict from "Lost"?

  • Wait - so its just a bunch of slackers in jeans putting this thing together by hand? Oh well, it looks awesome. Nice work, people.

  • no safety helmets or gloves ? LOL

  • Cheers to Richard Branson!!

  • they aren´t using white masks or coats!

    and they don´t look like mad scientists!

  • que xuxa es est wada

  • haha the guy with the hammer at 3:58 . thanks to the help from him, rich billionairs will have a very bad time.

  • they need to work on a Moon lander

  • @elliott12591 The problem with a moon lander like this is that if anything happens they wouldn't be able to repair it out there because the materials required would be on earth. It can't really carry much so keeping a repair stock and the time and temperature is not likely to exist on missions such as that.

  • @diestobereborn I'm pretty sure the Apollo 11 did not have a "repair stock" either, and I have seen the Apollo 11 capsule, the space is pretty much like a camping tent. It's all about doing things right the first time and succeeding.

  • @elliott12591 Regardless what you think, they did have items to make repairs. Simple repairs.

  • @diestobereborn maybe bandaids thats about it.

  • this looks more like White Knight II getting built.

  • to infinity and beyond!

  • thats bizarre, hand made space ship....

  • @romanking123

    Probably a lot less bizarre than it looks. Spacecraft are made in such small numbers... You wouldn't build a robotic assembly line to make five cars! So its like a custom job.

  • @romanking123 The parts are assembled by machine in such a way that they can be placed with exact precision.

  • @romanking123 With all due respect, SpaceShip One was hand made, too. Rutan's design was so remarkable that, in the eyes of ordinary people, it just seem impossible. He simply have to build it himself.

  • WOW ... that's cool ... can't wait to see it when it's done !

  • looks like they are assembling a big toy plane

  • look at 00:03 they are going to fill this with coke and mentos for propullsion

  • this clip has that alien autopsy feel about it. like youre not actually seeing people working but people are looking like they are working for the film. anyone know what i mean.

  • I agree. Part of it is the sound of the camera clicking in the background. It screams "photo-op".

  • this is clearly a model just for paint at the start see how the apparent diagnal beams are cut for the cabin to rest in it all looks like a film set rather than aircraft construction. where is the electronics.

    i know the project is real but this looks like a model

  • So you are actually comprising the lack of safety equipment with relaxed working environment? So what happens when an employee make permanent damage to his foot because he lack safety shoes and the insurance wont pay? Well the the company wont pay either. Those guys were just working in regular footwear, irresponsible.

  • carbon fiber

  • Ha yeah this looks like a really safe working environment. They can afford to build a spaceship but can get a crane to lift the parts into position!

  • why would they use a crane to lift pieces of plastic

  • This is the White Knight 2 assembly, not Space Ship 2. This vehicle carries Space Ship 2.

  • The test fight is scedueled in December this year (2009)

  • the test flight was done last year

  • Really, for Spaceship 2? That`s great. I red in Wkipedia different. But that`s cool though!

  • The carrier plane White Knight 2 was tested earlier this year, but Spaceshiptwo isn't scheduled to fly until at least December. As of July, about 60% of the vehicle was complete.

  • Ok at first looks like Han Solo and Chewbacca needed there aswell "bring me the wrench! no the other one!... wrroahahawrrrr!!!".... but if this is Scale Composites and if they took man into space then i say great job! Keep it up!

  • Thomas Edison fostered an extraordinarily relaxed and informal atmosphere at his Menlo Park research lab. The result: an outpouring of genius and accomplishment light years ahead of his competitors. Similarly, the technicians in this video enjoy a laid-back work environment, and they ended up winning the $10 million Ansari X-Prize. Genius doesnt come from wearing a lab coat and gloves, or a trendy hairstyle.

  • EDISON? LOL

    don't compare Rutan to Edison, the punk

    Nicola Tesla wiped the floor with Edison

    "accomplishment light years ahead of his competitors"

    No.

    Edison was an ordinary inventor

    Tesla was a Genius

    Rutan is a Genius

    I suggest you check the history books before talking about such a jelous, stubborn, money hungry asshole in such a way.

    My point is, Edison = prick, Tesla/Rutan = Inventive Visionaries

  • @InphinityNrG Learn your history. Rutan is exactly like Edison. Hire the best possible in the field to get the job accomplished. Tesla is equivelent to all those that work for Rutan. They are the true innovation in the company. Edison had hit flicker of influence and then had to use others to stay there. Rutan is just repeating history.

  • @InphinityNrG What did Edison do? He hired the people that could keep his name building up. What does Rutan do? He hires the people to make this work. Rutan didn't come up with the idea himself. He wasn't going to until commissioned to do so by Sir Richard Branson. Rutan did nothing on the engineering. He hired the engineers to design it. Rutan didn't do the work. He hired people to do it. Rutan is nothing more than a loser that under pays his workers for the jobs they are doing.

  • @InphinityNrG

    On most counts I agree with you, but what's with your vendetta against Edison?

  • @InphinityNrG Edison had very few original ideas. He mostly took existing inventions and made them marketable. And even then, he had scientists to do the work.

  • @InphinityNrG HECK YEAH!!

  • @InphinityNrG NEEEEERRRD! naw jk, u obviously know your stuff, and i respect that. Now i feel like looking those people up and comparing them for myself.

  • @InphinityNrG Hey Genius,didn't that body suppose to be made out of Titanium or something similar ultimately covered with ceramic plating?Are those Nasa guys or ordinary contractors?Ty.

  • Great. my future spaceship is being built from fiberglass and being joined together with bondo. are we serious here? this is state of the art? it looks just like the boat factory i worked in, and reminds me alot of joining the hull with the deck. except there was a special glue involed on the joining seam. not bondo. im just say crap, it looks really cool. but i didn't expect to see a guy bondoing the inside.

  • first off you probably don't know that bondo is a brand name of body filler, and there is nothing wrong with using that for this type application allthough you don't know what property's this particular body filler has. so lay off please. carbon fiber is worked similarly to fiber glass.

  • you're an idiot. composite hulls are multiple times stronger than steel and modern adhesives are essentially chemical methods of welding. just because it isnt conventional doesn't mean it wont work (spaceshipone was a great success)

  • Maybe they ARE professional technicians, but they look and dress like amateurs playing on weekend.

    Only 2 persons wearing gloves...

    A lot of ductape...

  • The first ones to go should be all the retards who keep claiming that all spaceflight is faked, so they can be proven wrong.

  • If those guys bought a telescope they could see the I.S.S.

  • I just hope it will be durable enough. SpaceShipOne was a huge success...

  • Please take a look to the groupe " 1$ for each member of this group and I've my space travel" on FACEBOOK

    this project need support, so join us and ADD ALL YOUR FRIENDS to do it the same.

    First people who will be able to send to space by Facebook community

    Thanks in advance

  • If I ever won a large PowerBall or Lottery , I would surely book a flight on this.

  • yea, or build one

  • They have my dreamjob :(

  • i need one!

  • A Battlestar Gallactica type spaceship could be built within a hundred years, by building it on the moon with 1/6 gravity and would easy take off with no atmosphere. But many items would need transporting from earth, including the beer!!

  • Blsht! All you need to transport is hops seeds, barley seeds, yeast, and the recipe (10kbytes). Battlestar Gallactica is a moronoic idea,.

  • Mr Moron informer,

    The beer bit was a joke, you know haha!! The B G idea I heard being talked about on the radio so if i'm a moron then theres some others out there with this idea who you need to inform also!!(LOL)

  • Great observation - there are morons out there. :) :) I concur.

  • Why the moon? Earth orbit would be easier and cheaper.

  • that is a very cheap space ship.

  • ah yes, am multi million dollar - cheap - spaceship! :D

  • NASA could learn alot from this.

  • How thrilling this all is to see ..and imagine .. GO VIRGIN !!!!!!

  • i have one of those in my garage..

  • wil they be making a magic schoolbus so i can learn where to take a crap???

  • VOYAGE SPETTACOLI ITALIA. Agenti Concessionari autorizzati per l'Italia Vigin Galactic - da oggi è possibile prenotare.

    Un sogno trasformato in realtà:

    Voyage spettacoli Italia e Voyage Executive.Vivere l'emozione a gravità 0, orbitare in torno alla terra a 121.000! metri di altezza. Godere il silenzio totale in piena assenza di gravità. Tutto questo è ora possibile grazie a Virgin Galactic. Per info; e prenotazioni consultare Voyage spettacoli Italia oppure Voyage Executive

  • i just hope no body dies... if there are many flights (which they intend) there is a good change one of them will fail.. I wonder how long they will stop flying if someone dies for real...Ofcourse i hope it won`t happen but we all now the record of failed launches and human spaceflight tragedies...

  • "we all now the record of failed launches and human spaceflight tragedies..."

    The government really distorts the expense and safety of space travel due to wasteful spending and incompetence.

  • i think the rocket engine and aircraft is still very fool proof, like the rocket engine is supposedly really safe and the aircraft coast back to earth without power.

  • Burt Rutan is an aerospace genius and Virgin's airlines are among the safest in the world. I think this is the best possible combination for flight safety.

  • Im not avin a go but i think youll find that statistically human spaceflight is very safe.

  • I know atleast 21 people who died in human spaceflight. 488 people have traveled to space. That means that 4,3% DIE!!! Thus EXTREMELY dangerous! Just imagine taking a trip with your car and having a 4,3% change of Dying Each Time!

    While most have traveled to space once some traveled more lowering the number but this number also not take into account bystander who died.. for example 21 engineers who died in a 2003 rocket launch (and not counting the other engineers killed in human spaceflight)

  • Yeah with crappy nasa earth take-off rockets, this is fantastic and safe technology.

  • Car crashes happen all the time, there's always a chance of human error. Everyone knows this over and over. It's just narrowing that chance that comforts us.

  • Agree...just interested to know what they will do if it does go wrong (considering other accidents)...I believe there are still more deaths in car crashes each month in the US then people who died on 9/11 (about 43.000 people died in crashes in 2003).

    Life; living on a string that snaps at moment`s notice...

    ...but it`s a great roller coaster and i love every moment!..lol

  • That means that you would die 4.3 times for every 100 car rides. Cats could only drive 200 times and be on their 9th life.

  • how many are they building of these ?

  • 1, just 1

  • this isnt SpaceShipTwo. this is whiteKnightTwo the plane which will carry spaceShipTwo up. . . .

  • i am impressed

  • its so light, they just pick it up like its nothing. These ships are so badass, I hope in 10 years or so I can buy a ticket to Virgins moon base or space station.

  • hey, i take offense to that, i went to public school and now im a NADCAP inspecktor

  • Don't you mean NADCRAP?

  • Don't you mean NADCRAP?

  • What is with all the negative posts? Then again we have alot of idiots from our public schools.

  • They're pissed because it wasn't a "gooberment" job drenched in politics. You see it should have been overregulated by NASA or some other government agency. It should have been designed by a commitee authorized with pork-barrel legislation attatched through Con-gress. It should have orginally cost 25 BILLION and have been delayed 20 years due to safety and enviornmental garbage coming in over budget another 50 billion dollars with Joe Taxpayer picking up the tap. /s

  • So you think these people here posting work for Lockheed Martin?

  • haha, here here! - private and public is like cream and crap, what would you rather have?

  • Just because they are not showing process control does not mean its not there. They successfully did something nobody else had done on a shoestring budget. I'm amazed at the comments for those that know nothing of Scaled Composites and Burt Ratan...and I know very little about them except what I've read in trade publications and on the net. Where is Lockheed and Boeings private space operations?

  • it can fly?i mean thats a model or a real one?

  • Lockheed, the guys that NEVER seem capable of delivering anything on time or on budget. *cough* F-22A, *cough* F-35 perpetually sucking Americans dry of their tax dollars.

    What's the matter? Not enough beurocratic bullshit involved for you? That's why NASA wastes billions developing the "new" Orion spacecraft yet for 25 million these guys sucessfully reached low earth orbit. My hat goes off to them.

  • It appears that Ron Paul couldn't become President but these Lockheeds still get their asses beat by Burt Rutan.

  • Before you go questioning, please remember that not everyone is educated in some college that forces you to pay thousands of dollars to get a degree that you won't need half of the classes. Engineers are idiots. Especially those that work for the major companies. I know this for a fact after seeing how poorly the JSF is going, and what this company has done with smaller budget and many fewer people. Also, the unions don't help your company.

  • Lockheed and Boeing couldn't make anything like this. They are too busy spending the U.S. tax dollars to get nothing accomplished except for holding back their research. Not an assumption, it's proof.

  • didn t lock leed buy scale composites from burt rutan?

  • Thats why Lockheed mad the sr71 which was sort of like a military 60's version of space ship one, weird right. But no your right Lockheed could never make anything remotely similar to this, ever. April 25th, 1962 never happened

  • @diestobereborn If you were given an equal amount of US tax dollars, how many spaceships would you build?

  • this stuff is so easy, i can do it with 1 million dollars and with 3 people. I dont know how people fail with like 25 million and 20 people.

  • cause there dumb, vut smarter than you

  • Fuck of you fucking fag

  • i can make that too, nothing new

  • Thanks for the video! Saw spaceship one in the Smithsonian!

  • Did you see all those wannabe nerds assembling the ship? I wouldn't trust my life with that haphazardous, duck taped together POS.

  • The man who is constructing this has over 30 years of experience making experimental aircraft.

    I'd like to know your expertise for judging his contruction techniques.

  • as a matter of fact, I bet those "wannabe nerds" make a fuckload amount of money. wat do you make sittin on your computer posting smartass comments all day long "Turbinator"?

  • Being in security, I go to work and surf the internet all day long, pretending to look at security cameras, and get payed enough to travel every summer, while I am finishing up my school. Im having a blast, how about you?

  • I spy single lap joint for the front cabin assembly.

  • The whole operation looks about as hi-tech as the local hotrod shop! Okay, I'm sure they know what they're doing, but it sure doesn't look like the big boys' plants; it's hard to believe some of this stuff is going to the edge of space!

  • it looks like its made of wood, theres like three guys carrying a huge thing around.. (i know its this super light stuff tho)

  • All the naysaying cunt bubbles who posted derogatory comments on this site should be loaded into the cargo bay on a one-wayer!

  • it is prity boreing

  • 'pretty boring'? I'm assuming that's what you meant. Maybe you should get of the net and go back to school.

  • MORE MORE and MORE production videos please. Come on Burt you know us geeks love this stuff.

  • It's being made by guys in camo pants and blue jeans. I saw one guy in a hoodie. I'd buy weed from a guy in a hoodie. I wouldn't ride in his spaceship. Unless it was the "magic spaceship."

  • urbanverbal - Those guys are some of the best in their field. In fact I would take one of Burt's guys over a NASA guy any day.

  • Ok,so obviously wearing uniforms gives you the talent to work better with composites. Thanks for straightening that out for me.

  • ill just wait 50 years when its safer and cheeper lol.

  • This is a Movie prop being built for the movie "Apollo 14," :D thats just my wild guess....

  • I take back my comment lol, this is actually a scaled version of the Virgin Galactic aircraft...

  • yes and for 20 000 $ u will be able to go to space, its gonna be a ride.

  • how can u tell how safe it looks by a 4 min crapy quality youtube video, have you ever constructed a space ship? didnt think so, ur so fuking ignorant.

  • wow I guess you're really passionate about people having their own ideas, fucking prick

  • All of he sudden Everyone is a Space Expert, if they dont see the Spielberg-white-masked-kinda-s­uite, they cannot believe it, freaking Peasants, only used to the NASA stuff, th world is Bigger than you think... in the back you can see the Knight plane, you bunch of moronic noobs!

  • They're not UFOs! They're time machines.

    I love you guys.

  • lol well said acontinuityofparks

  • Is nice to know they will charge 500 k+ for a seat to ride this thing and still can't afford to provide clean uniform and hair net for the workers that put it together. Some actual training other then muscle may also be helpful here too.

    Just remember this when you see it coming back down as a bunch of flaming pile of materials from outter space on CNN.

  • Was that gum I saw holding part of the fuselage together? Is there a Vegas line on this crate I should know about?I surely don't want to jinx the maiden voyage but I'm going to bet on the flaming pile of materials you mentioned.

  • Hmmmm... and Nasa does it better?

    Colombia?  Challenger?

  • not exactly the same way NASA dose it huh! lol

  • I's really like this and it's a lot better than the short time lapse video they showed at the Boeing plant in Everett. Here they show what is really happening. Now I know Steve Jobs funded Spaceship One and it had a quick jaunt into space. I remember the Skittles floating in Zero G. They'll pull it off - don't you worry.

  • Steve Jobs did not fund SS1. It was Paul Allen of Microsoft fame.

  • I hope it's ready for Airventuer this summer! Can't wait to actualy see it.

  • it's funny on how space ship assembly went to things about global warming lol

  • Reminds me of building IKEA furniture

  • Nah, my bookshelf was way more complicated than that.

  • i hope global warming never happens or the end of the world both of those give me the frights =(

  • im still not sure if global warming exists, i have done some studies on it and the results were surprising.

  • explain

  • the hottest recorded year is in 1940s the weather has been in decline ever since, however if u look at it century wise, it looks like its getting hotter, so after a few years we will notice a decline in tempature, but this is not proven at all and is my theory so dont yell at me or stuff like that

  • So your "theory" trumps the 3000 scientists who ALL agree that global warming is 110% real?

    They have temperature records going back nearly 700,000 years via ice sheets.. We're going under... water that is, just you wait. Stronger Storms, more tornadoes in Winter, stronger hurricanes, its going to get a lot worse.

  • oism (dot) org (slash) pproject

  • which 3000 scientists? Who would pay 3000 different people that qualified to study one thing? Think before you read some fucking statistic quickly made. Or did they randomly go door to door at different labs and ask what the scientists' opinion on global warming was only to find out only 3000 out of the 999999 scientists agreed on it. fag

  • even discounting the other holes in your theory, the hottest recorded years are not in the 1940's. Even in this century four of the five hottest years were in the 1990's (and the 5th is in the 2000's... and the data only goes to 2002 so far in many publications). So fooey to you.

    Let this be a lesson to you: don't get your "science" from Fox news.

  • watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI&NR=1

  • Goes to show how light the materials are when humans can lift large components of the ship without a hoist.

  • SO cool how they made that in 4:24 minutes! :PP

  • it just pokes holes in the ozone... nasa u just make the earth even worse...

  • you really have no idea on how these stuff works dont you... Ozone is a gas... not a kind of pellicule or something... when you pass through it, it does the same thing as aire when you walk... there is no air where you are... you are there... but when you move foward, the air around you takes the place you occupied a moment ago... Ozone is the same thing... when a ship passes hrough it, the Ozone take back its place...

  • oh and by the way... Ozone is not between our air and space... ozone is roughly between 20km and 50 km in altitude, while space begins at about 85-100km in altitude...

  • the rocket FUEL when burned BURNS some of the ozone gas which makes it THIN

  • mm nope, not really. hybrid rockets are oxidizer-rich, so the fuel has all the oxidizer it needs, the fuel (solid rubber) burns inside the rocket, with the oxidizer (nitrous oxide i believe) so at no time does the fuel become mixed with o3 and burn.

  • What are you talking about. This tiny plane will not destroy the planet as your car does, if you have one.

  • turmat you got trolled son

  • omg thats amazing... there is a cocacola machine in that factory

  • that is amazing?

  • hell YA!!

  • lol, you sound like peter griffin^^

  • Thats is the best show EVER!!