Man, we got our flying cars, they're called helicopters and only the wealthy have them. Now we got space travel and only the super wealthy get to go. I'm tired of being poor. Where the hell is the revalution?!?
Do you mean revolution? Dude you need to realize that these companies need money and so of course only the rich could go there because everything they make cost a lot of money, if you won the lottery or something you could also go. Not to mention if their was a revolution then no one would be going to space and our technology would be set back 10 or more years.
People without fresh water, food, or basic human rights or needs. Wealthy knuckleheads spend millions of dollars to go into orbit for sport. I hope the airlock leaks.
@internationalgiant1 Fuck you idiot, things like this will help stop the human race from becoming extict. This will help us and our engineers to get further out and colonize space, i hope you die!
@PAGofficial sadly what he says is the idiotic public view about space... and yet they benefit and use the technologies that emerge from research into space... dumb humans.
How is it the wealthy responsibility to take care of the needy? We already have business to help the needy and provide food and such. Not to mention this would really help the human race to start space explorations, first it hotel and tourist attentions in space then their the money from all of that and from their it more and more expansion.
That's right, Junior. Danged ol' gov'ment ain't never gonna git us up in space. Best just to leave dis kinda smarts to the boys at Nascar. Shooooooot. :)
They need to have a roll of cord that connects to the passenger and the seat. If something go's wrong, the cords will automatically "reil" the passengers back into their seats and lock.
lol plus the prize was wat 10 million lmfao nasa's programs wipe thier ass with that much money. give Virgin Galactic 100 mill and see wat they could build
truely something amazing for mankind even if it is sub orbit we need to get rid of nasa and build an international space orginization but i dont think it should become this joke its a amazing achievement each time we go up but we should have landed on mars by now and bases on the moon but instead some fuck head had to go spend all the budget on some bullshit military program.
Its still ***S-U-B*** orbital. Its only space by definition of lowest edge of the lowest boundary of space. Only 1/4th the way to a Lowest part of Low orbit and X-15 still holds a better record back in the 60's. Orbiting the Earth is way cooler. Keep improving and get out of SUB orbit into orbit.
@bryanraleigh2 X-15 record was 67 miles up. SpaceShip1's record is 69 miles up. It beat it by 2 miles. Space ship one (or two) only needs to go "at least" 130 miles higher to have any kind of practical use to humans. Have you seen the UK plan for a Skylon?
No wonder Obama doesn’t want to share with the other children.
You shouldn’t have elected him or any other future president. Just sit back and don’t vote. I dare you to (all not vote). Then we’re see how the situation turns out would it be worse the same or better or would they keep the same ass puppet in office for 4th term to fuck you all over! I bet Obama gets free secret rides on the shuttle that we don’t know about. lol
@EmpireLS56KW he probably does hahah i think everybody should get rides to space. i think it would be a great vacation idea. or even a honeymoon. thumbs up if you agree with me?
Should've made a saucer instead, which is way cheaper and easier to build. You save tons of money from not needing a runway and fuel. Unless the Gov't has conditions for private companies NOT to build them.
actually, this isn't a REAL spaceflight. you get to about 100 km above the earth, only half the way up to, for example, the ISS... and it costs 140.000 euro...
@Ciaran500 no, you don't get the point. you are only 4 minutes weightless, and that's not because you're in space, but because of the free fall you are making. So it might be fun, but it is in no way similar to for example a NASA spaceshuttle.
@M8T12B93 That is real space flight. The ISS is constantly in free falling towards the earth (at about 2km/month according to wiki) are you saying that's not real space flight?
The ISS is free falling around the earth. Extremely thin air creates resistance that makes it slow down. It's not falling towards the earth, it's still falling around earth just on a lower orbit. If they didn't move it back in the right orbit every now and then, eventually it would fall towards earth and that would be a disaster.
They are in space, just not in orbit around the earth... Do you really think an orbit is required for this to be called a spaceflight? Well, your wrong. I don't think many people would pay the insane amount of money needed to achieve orbit + profit for the companies anyways, just to see earth for how long? Some days, a week? I'm sure it would get kinda boring after a while. Could be more than 4 minutes tho, but I'm sure they'll come with 8/16/30 minute flights some time later.
So you think this is a proper spaceflight? Well, you are wrong here. It's just a parabolic flight which crosses the space 'by chance'. Yes, an orbit is what I would call a spaceflight. And yes, that's insanely expensive, but THAT is a spaceflight! And I'm not so sure about the 8/16/30 minute flights you propose. Because if you want to get (for example) 3 times higher, you will need 9 times more fuel, E=mv2
Conclusion, a real spaceflight is still far far away from spaceship two
I've looked up the definitions, very few out there though. Site: Answers tells us it's a flight beyond earths atmosphere, but then goes to say it may be an orbital flight or an extend flight beyond earth into space. Site: mw4.m-w and lexic only tells us it's a flight beyond earths atmosphere. These were the only definitions I found after searching through 10 pages google came up with. Im not sure we'll ever come to an agreement.
But I see it as a flight that goes to space; spaceflight.
No actually, I agree with you! After thinking about how the word would translate into my language I agree with you. It's more of a space jump than spaceflight, they are not flying in space but jumping into it and falling down again. :)
@M8T12B93, not as far as you would think. After galactic launch this, other private companies will jump on the band wagon and there will be competition, giving way for breakthroughs in technologies. give it 5-10 years, and you will have your "proper" spaceflight.
@MrDeano324 Hmm, I don't have a single doubt you're right, but I guess it might take a little longer, let's say 25-50 years. For now, we can't have a commercial spaceflight, with Virgin Galactic certainly not! But still hoping for the future!
I know that NASA has done a great amount of work to get us were we are at today but it now up to private companies to move us forward.... Since the united states government has cancelled the Ares program we can not depend the advancement of space travel on the government, we will go father into space due to private companies. Sorry about how i wrote my first comment, but most ppl understood what I was talking about. I know about all the work Nasa has done.
@lestef23 What are you talking about private companies will pay for it. Are trying to say if I wanted to go into space? Russia charges a few million to go up for a few days and starting cost for the spaceship one to go up will be $250,000 but that is for the first decade but it is only like hour in space. I am saying unlike are non motivated government private companies will move us forward into space.
@Nezzytheawesome i totally, totally agree with you, competition equals desire for innovation, whether what's behind it is need for financial gains or otherwise is completely insignificant, once business companies see space as an opportunity that's when true galactic innovations start, i just hope it happens in my life time, though i doubt it, which is shame.
@theyoung fucks: 5 years is a long time. Already they are talking about buget problems. We are living in the richest country in the world and I"m tired of hearing about money problems.
How come Burt Ruttans name appears nowhere on the fuselage, only a corporate "virgin" name shows ? No American firm ? Brits have always been thieves: they've a long history of stealing from the inventor, making themselves rich. Once they don't need you, the Brits are going to FUCK-U Burt .... then rewrite the history. Branson's probably a Bank of England secret agent.
Yes that reentry. Something tells me not all the screws are in place for this venture yet and will take some more space shots to convince me. Do not care to be a human test dummy. What happens if you have a problem like a second safety system, say a 2" thick layer of an ablative? What about more energy in the motors as well to have a powered reentry. Seems to me that having more energy than gravity will place a little more control. Looks like Bevin's RR design is good but needs a little more.
"SpaceShipTwo will be unveiled after darkness has fallen over the Mojave Desert to the sound of a space-themed anthem from Britains biggest DJs, Above & Beyond. Fittingly titled Buzz the track will sample Buzz Aldrins original moon landing dialogue. The DJs will also perform an exclusive set at the celebration cocktail party which will follow and feature the first ever IceBar in the desert hosted by Absolut and the world famous Swedish IceHotel." Why the western world rules..
man, its all about the space elevator. spanceships are good, but its not a perfect way to get people into space. an elevator at see would be a better solution in my opinion. not only can you get people into space, but you can get lots of equipment and structures. we have the technology, but i dont understand why they dont just build it
Space station for melting minirals like for metal or glass etc. My theory of making a space ship for melting metal, glass and the design are building in Octopus design and the arm has the system of drilling machine like for drilling tunnel for breacking the space rock in small peaces the arm hold the space rock and the pointy arm are solar lens for melting miniral into stone or glass.
"the video and images will be theirs to share to their children, and grandchildren"
by that time, my grandchildren are my age, they'll probably be going to jupiter and mars as a school trip so when i show them this video they'll be bored to tears. well, hopefully humanity will reach this.
I just grin when I see this video because I remember as a kid watching movies like "spacecamp" or when NASA would ask "How would you like to be an astronaut someday?"
No thanks to you NASA. You gave us nothing but an impossible dream and patronized us with things like kids spacecamp. Fuck you NASA! Thank you Burt Rutan, Richard Branson, and Paul Allen.
In 10 years this would be a dumb thing to look at, space travel would kinda normal. I wouldn't spend a dime on space travel now, unless you're gonna die soon
I get where your coming from, BUT, where would the money for all that jazzy space hardware of the future come from if people didn't spend "dimes" today? Where would the safety of "kinda normal" be developed from if it weren't for the pioneers learning to do it today. On our dimes.
Incredible! My wife and I were living in Mojave California during the flight test of spaceship on and witnessed the test flights from our back yard. This was a history in the making. We also got to see the space shuttle come over our house at about 10,000 feet to land at Edwards airforce base when it could not land in Florida. "Space, the begining frotier."
There have been a few space tourists on the ISS. However, they payed about $25 million, the cost of SpaceShipOne's research, development, and construction.
SpaceShipTwo will fly its first tourists next year at $200,000 per person, then later at $20,000 a person.
Hopefully SpaceShipThree will be both cheaper and orbital.
Yeah, like Virgin Galactic's hurting for publicity? The only way putting Matt Drudge in a space ship would make sense would be if the Ansari X prize was replaced by something where they reward whoever is the first to lob a major Internet asshole into space and then leave him there.
On second thought, maybe if Drudge had that life-changing epiphany experience of looking down at his home and seeing the curvature of the Earth while floating in near weightlessness, well, maybe he'd get himself a little humility and stop being such a damned asshole.
Your Pryvate Italy in collaborazione con 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
Burt Rutan is getting his information from Robert Goddard and not from NASA. NASA got their informaiton from Robert Goddard. Goddard first used liquidated oxygen back in the 20's and this is used for space rockets. Burt Rutan also invented the "feathered configuration" which slows the descent of space craft eliminating the need for heated reentry.
Common, everyday access to space would only happen if a civilian, rather than governmental agency got into space tourism. I see that with SpaceShip One/Two it is happening. Nothing, short of war, spurs on rapid development like capitalism. Now that Xcor is also getting involved with the space tourism business Virgin may soon get some competition, futhering progress. But the merging of NASA with the civilian space industry in about twenty years furthers Moon and Mars colonization.
does the spaceshiptwo have a "lavatory" or else how are you gonna have these bunch of old guy's riding in it? oh, just one more thing. You get to go to different worlds and stars for only 20 bucks of weed in the downtown.(five bags)..you save a hell of a lot of money! XD
The safety angle is that the craft is very simple. Full credit too to NASA who are taking the Virgin Galactic project seriously. By the way, the prototype first flew in 2004 so this is for real. Once it comes down to a price the average person can handle, even if they finance it (say the rice of a small car), watch the rush.
The helmets in the animation are just for show - the craft is designed to carry people in their shirt-sleeves if they wish. The actual passengers won't be wearing helmets. The experience will be awesome - not just the excitement of the rocket acceleration (2200 ft a second - faster than a bullet) but the weightlessness and silence of space. Apparently they are even turning of the ventilation fans so there is absolutely no sound during the weighlessness period.
Oh wow, this is it, this is one of the moments I have been dreaming of, space travel to the PUBLIC, the people, when you really look at the abstractive setting of the idea itself, its just, phenomenal. . .highest respect to these people, and it is NOT involved with the Government =]
I heard a company might be starting up in Ontario, Canada sometime in 2009 with pricing starting at 50-100K CDN for suborbital flights like this. It's only gonna get cheaper folks, majority of you here watching this video will go into space, or suborbital space, many times in your life.
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if they gave me a free ticket in this rocket plane i wont go. any thing gets wrong it will be a disaster especially when the rocket ignites. I've seen a rocket disaster before i just couldn't believe it i cannot accept it to my self.
Blood sweat tears is an noble honorable and a must sacrifice for exploration for those that have the insight of human spirit as well as preserving the human race by getting us not so dependant on just ONE ROCK.
I'm not dissing war its an necessary duty to preserve freedom and rights for sentience but we spend a lot of blood on war when it should be spent on exploration.
Thank You. I know the core thinking behind the words are just and true to our survival of the far future. Not just for natural disasters, but it would ease pollution as well. Our pursuit for new and better tech, new resources as alloy, composite and stronger lighter base material compisitions through manafacture in zero-gravity not to mention time in a harsh enviorment to make disputes seem not so big and more enlightenment of respect for our eco-system. :)
This is a dreamy thought but also, hopefuly people will someday relize it isnt necessary to breed like rabbits taxing resources needed for exploratin or the future, which is basicly being more sencitive for our surroundings including fellow sentience. One can only hope this can be our future.
240p we meet again
xxkarmaxx3 1 month ago
SPAAAAAAAAAACE
TheLegomark 1 month ago
Man, we got our flying cars, they're called helicopters and only the wealthy have them. Now we got space travel and only the super wealthy get to go. I'm tired of being poor. Where the hell is the revalution?!?
0wh00pwh00p0 3 months ago
@0wh00pwh00p0
Do you mean revolution? Dude you need to realize that these companies need money and so of course only the rich could go there because everything they make cost a lot of money, if you won the lottery or something you could also go. Not to mention if their was a revolution then no one would be going to space and our technology would be set back 10 or more years.
id493337 3 months ago
Those can't be americans, not enough flubber.....I kid, i kid !
rbuss1956 6 months ago
I wanna see the part where a meteor strikes the ship and everyone gets sucked out helter-skelter. THAT would be great!
internationalgiant1 7 months ago
Why aren't her hooters flattened out at her sides? No G-Forces on that crappy looking thing?
internationalgiant1 7 months ago
People without fresh water, food, or basic human rights or needs. Wealthy knuckleheads spend millions of dollars to go into orbit for sport. I hope the airlock leaks.
internationalgiant1 7 months ago
@internationalgiant1 Fuck you idiot, things like this will help stop the human race from becoming extict. This will help us and our engineers to get further out and colonize space, i hope you die!
PAGofficial 6 months ago 5
@PAGofficial sadly what he says is the idiotic public view about space... and yet they benefit and use the technologies that emerge from research into space... dumb humans.
pureawesomeness2012 3 weeks ago
@internationalgiant1
How is it the wealthy responsibility to take care of the needy? We already have business to help the needy and provide food and such. Not to mention this would really help the human race to start space explorations, first it hotel and tourist attentions in space then their the money from all of that and from their it more and more expansion.
id493337 3 months ago
That's right, Junior. Danged ol' gov'ment ain't never gonna git us up in space. Best just to leave dis kinda smarts to the boys at Nascar. Shooooooot. :)
Mykki1003 8 months ago
nice animation but...isn't this SpaceShipOne? I'm not sure but I know for sure that it's WhiteKnightOne at the beginning of the video...
flugverrueckt 8 months ago
lol smart people think alike
mrnintendochild 9 months ago
They need to have a roll of cord that connects to the passenger and the seat. If something go's wrong, the cords will automatically "reil" the passengers back into their seats and lock.
Viz731 9 months ago
@Viz731 So if everyone floated around to look out a window or see earth and the cords retracted there would be a big tangled ball.
mrnintendochild 9 months ago
@mrnintendochild yeah, right after I wrote it I thought about that lol..
Viz731 9 months ago
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@Viz731 lol smart people think alike
mrnintendochild 9 months ago
Type MYPRIZE instead of YOU in youtube and hit enter
ZAPOxBEWBZ 9 months ago
lol plus the prize was wat 10 million lmfao nasa's programs wipe thier ass with that much money. give Virgin Galactic 100 mill and see wat they could build
EW0Canuk 9 months ago
truely something amazing for mankind even if it is sub orbit we need to get rid of nasa and build an international space orginization but i dont think it should become this joke its a amazing achievement each time we go up but we should have landed on mars by now and bases on the moon but instead some fuck head had to go spend all the budget on some bullshit military program.
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discreetkeepsakul 10 months ago
Its still ***S-U-B*** orbital. Its only space by definition of lowest edge of the lowest boundary of space. Only 1/4th the way to a Lowest part of Low orbit and X-15 still holds a better record back in the 60's. Orbiting the Earth is way cooler. Keep improving and get out of SUB orbit into orbit.
ti994apc 10 months ago
@ti994apc
FALSE. only 2 X-15 flights managed to get to 320k feet or higher. only 13 total qualified for suborbital. Virgin Galactic has already hit 360k feet.
bryanraleigh2 9 months ago
@bryanraleigh2 X-15 record was 67 miles up. SpaceShip1's record is 69 miles up. It beat it by 2 miles. Space ship one (or two) only needs to go "at least" 130 miles higher to have any kind of practical use to humans. Have you seen the UK plan for a Skylon?
ti994apc 9 months ago
No money for HD ?
vfdpiu14 11 months ago
fake
mar39ify 1 year ago
@mar39ify
jesus man, its a simulation so its gonna happen sometime but not at this minute
samosammo123 10 months ago
So if this is Spaceship 2, does that mean you can pick up a used one? I'll take it.
studiosound211 1 year ago
@studiosound211 ha even if you could imagine the cost O_O
rbneville 1 year ago
How much would the ride cost?
meteor4163 1 year ago
@meteor4163 in another video they said an expected price of $200,000 a ticket
rbneville 1 year ago
thats SpaceShipONE
geez, get it right
sketchupto3drad 1 year ago
No wonder Obama doesn’t want to share with the other children.
You shouldn’t have elected him or any other future president. Just sit back and don’t vote. I dare you to (all not vote). Then we’re see how the situation turns out would it be worse the same or better or would they keep the same ass puppet in office for 4th term to fuck you all over! I bet Obama gets free secret rides on the shuttle that we don’t know about. lol
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
@EmpireLS56KW he probably does hahah i think everybody should get rides to space. i think it would be a great vacation idea. or even a honeymoon. thumbs up if you agree with me?
wackymac28 1 year ago
Should've made a saucer instead, which is way cheaper and easier to build. You save tons of money from not needing a runway and fuel. Unless the Gov't has conditions for private companies NOT to build them.
litetheory 1 year ago
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08:22 is Tony Stark?
whiteskullwhiteskull 1 year ago
is Tony Stark?
whiteskullwhiteskull 1 year ago
i need to start saving up for a ticket to this!
95luis95 1 year ago
The future is always with free enterprise....we should have done this in the 70's.
easyalpha1 1 year ago
I want to go.
hybridamerica 1 year ago
cant hear shyt
shyboy2cute 1 year ago
jesus....must it be such poor quality. they obvi have tons of money, MARKET IT!
bignube 1 year ago
Prandtl-Glauert condensation clouds not always at trans sonic speeds.
biffy7 1 year ago
actually, this isn't a REAL spaceflight. you get to about 100 km above the earth, only half the way up to, for example, the ISS... and it costs 140.000 euro...
M8T12B93 1 year ago
@M8T12B93 It is a "REAL" space flight, its just not a long one. Space officially starts at 100km, this will fly to 110km.
Ciaran500 1 year ago
@Ciaran500 no, you don't get the point. you are only 4 minutes weightless, and that's not because you're in space, but because of the free fall you are making. So it might be fun, but it is in no way similar to for example a NASA spaceshuttle.
M8T12B93 1 year ago
@M8T12B93 That is real space flight. The ISS is constantly in free falling towards the earth (at about 2km/month according to wiki) are you saying that's not real space flight?
Ciaran500 1 year ago
@Ciaran500
The ISS is free falling around the earth. Extremely thin air creates resistance that makes it slow down. It's not falling towards the earth, it's still falling around earth just on a lower orbit. If they didn't move it back in the right orbit every now and then, eventually it would fall towards earth and that would be a disaster.
fuunguus 1 year ago
@M8T12B93
They are in space, just not in orbit around the earth... Do you really think an orbit is required for this to be called a spaceflight? Well, your wrong. I don't think many people would pay the insane amount of money needed to achieve orbit + profit for the companies anyways, just to see earth for how long? Some days, a week? I'm sure it would get kinda boring after a while. Could be more than 4 minutes tho, but I'm sure they'll come with 8/16/30 minute flights some time later.
fuunguus 1 year ago
@fuunguus
So you think this is a proper spaceflight? Well, you are wrong here. It's just a parabolic flight which crosses the space 'by chance'. Yes, an orbit is what I would call a spaceflight. And yes, that's insanely expensive, but THAT is a spaceflight! And I'm not so sure about the 8/16/30 minute flights you propose. Because if you want to get (for example) 3 times higher, you will need 9 times more fuel, E=mv2
Conclusion, a real spaceflight is still far far away from spaceship two
M8T12B93 1 year ago
@M8T12B93
I've looked up the definitions, very few out there though. Site: Answers tells us it's a flight beyond earths atmosphere, but then goes to say it may be an orbital flight or an extend flight beyond earth into space. Site: mw4.m-w and lexic only tells us it's a flight beyond earths atmosphere. These were the only definitions I found after searching through 10 pages google came up with. Im not sure we'll ever come to an agreement.
But I see it as a flight that goes to space; spaceflight.
fuunguus 1 year ago
@fuunguus
No actually, I agree with you! After thinking about how the word would translate into my language I agree with you. It's more of a space jump than spaceflight, they are not flying in space but jumping into it and falling down again. :)
fuunguus 1 year ago
@M8T12B93, not as far as you would think. After galactic launch this, other private companies will jump on the band wagon and there will be competition, giving way for breakthroughs in technologies. give it 5-10 years, and you will have your "proper" spaceflight.
MrDeano324 1 year ago
@MrDeano324 Hmm, I don't have a single doubt you're right, but I guess it might take a little longer, let's say 25-50 years. For now, we can't have a commercial spaceflight, with Virgin Galactic certainly not! But still hoping for the future!
M8T12B93 1 year ago
200 000$ for the fly
kati667 1 year ago
Its amazing how much we advanced in technology from 100 years ago. this looks like a fun ride.
nicopicous 2 years ago
good way to propose marriage
dyeeems 2 years ago
Nasa well never get us in space cause of the government, it's up to private companies to get us up into space.
PJS102187 2 years ago 46
@PJS102187 look at the NASA badge on the uniforme 09:42
citymontreal 2 years ago
I know that NASA has done a great amount of work to get us were we are at today but it now up to private companies to move us forward.... Since the united states government has cancelled the Ares program we can not depend the advancement of space travel on the government, we will go father into space due to private companies. Sorry about how i wrote my first comment, but most ppl understood what I was talking about. I know about all the work Nasa has done.
PJS102187 2 years ago
@PJS102187 And private companies wont let you unless you pay a large sum of money...
lestef23 1 year ago
@lestef23 What are you talking about private companies will pay for it. Are trying to say if I wanted to go into space? Russia charges a few million to go up for a few days and starting cost for the spaceship one to go up will be $250,000 but that is for the first decade but it is only like hour in space. I am saying unlike are non motivated government private companies will move us forward into space.
PJS102187 1 year ago
Competition breeds innovation. The government does not have to compete with anyone. Therefore they will take much longer than the private companies.
Nezzytheawesome 1 year ago
@Nezzytheawesome i totally, totally agree with you, competition equals desire for innovation, whether what's behind it is need for financial gains or otherwise is completely insignificant, once business companies see space as an opportunity that's when true galactic innovations start, i just hope it happens in my life time, though i doubt it, which is shame.
advers1078 1 year ago
@PJS102187 It's like what Burt Rutan says NASA stands for - No Adult Supervision Apparent!
joesmoe71 1 year ago
@PJS102187 Nasa IS the government
MrAlexHuff 2 months ago
Ok!
roroapollo2 2 years ago
Do you have anymore info on that? Any pictures?
roroapollo2 2 years ago
They need to start working on a Moon lander.
elliott12591 2 years ago 2
Sounds like a plan to me. They are the best game in town. Better than waiting on NASA.
roroapollo2 2 years ago 2
@theyoung fucks: 5 years is a long time. Already they are talking about buget problems. We are living in the richest country in the world and I"m tired of hearing about money problems.
roroapollo2 2 years ago
Don't think that the US is proportional the richest country in the world.
plasmavox 2 years ago
How come Burt Ruttans name appears nowhere on the fuselage, only a corporate "virgin" name shows ? No American firm ? Brits have always been thieves: they've a long history of stealing from the inventor, making themselves rich. Once they don't need you, the Brits are going to FUCK-U Burt .... then rewrite the history. Branson's probably a Bank of England secret agent.
287654321 2 years ago
poop
battleofadwa 2 years ago
i SAW CHEwBACCA in this vid !!!!!!!!1
SuperMasterTroll 2 years ago
heart / o k @ 5:20
nice touch
dddsb 2 years ago
Yes that reentry. Something tells me not all the screws are in place for this venture yet and will take some more space shots to convince me. Do not care to be a human test dummy. What happens if you have a problem like a second safety system, say a 2" thick layer of an ablative? What about more energy in the motors as well to have a powered reentry. Seems to me that having more energy than gravity will place a little more control. Looks like Bevin's RR design is good but needs a little more.
watergroovin 2 years ago
at 5:18 looks like hes smoking a joint
aHeavenscent 2 years ago 13
What NASA shows you is the tip of the iceberg. Linear space travel is not the way of the future. Inter-dimensional travel is.
rockerdc 1 year ago
Mostly skipped the reentry, that's gonna be exciting but I guess firey death doesn't sell :-).
dorbie 2 years ago
What, $200,000 and no complimentary beverage?
Im sure there'll be some fat people on board, hope they wear a diaper.
All systems eventually fail, just hope/pray you're not on that flight.
WildLifeHawaii 2 years ago
why do fat people need a diaper?????
nicopicous 2 years ago
"SpaceShipTwo will be unveiled after darkness has fallen over the Mojave Desert to the sound of a space-themed anthem from Britains biggest DJs, Above & Beyond. Fittingly titled Buzz the track will sample Buzz Aldrins original moon landing dialogue. The DJs will also perform an exclusive set at the celebration cocktail party which will follow and feature the first ever IceBar in the desert hosted by Absolut and the world famous Swedish IceHotel." Why the western world rules..
LickPersianPussy 2 years ago
I just saved 134.000 Euro (200.000 Dollars) for this trip! I think, it's enough to see this film and do some holidays in the Caribian Sea.
cyberOwwwOecho 2 years ago
jay
ickeyo 2 years ago
That isn´t the SpaceShiTwo!
It´s only a bigger SpaceShipOne
SuperLufthansa 2 years ago
thats because the guy who designed this is the same guy who designed space ship one, the concept is the same
toddlerchar 2 years ago
advantageous to buy an old MiG 105 and fly into space as you like.
Biogem369 2 years ago
man, its all about the space elevator. spanceships are good, but its not a perfect way to get people into space. an elevator at see would be a better solution in my opinion. not only can you get people into space, but you can get lots of equipment and structures. we have the technology, but i dont understand why they dont just build it
JUKIO01 2 years ago
They can't with current materials technology.
Why leave it up to "THEY" ?
beadyeyedmonster 2 years ago
no, we don't have the technology. The longest strand of carbon nanotube ever made is only a few centermeters long!
dycarbon1 2 years ago
heard the japanese are working on the space elevator. one of the dudes said its feasable
JUKIO01 2 years ago
it's about time
proverb311031 2 years ago 2
Space station for melting minirals like for metal or glass etc. My theory of making a space ship for melting metal, glass and the design are building in Octopus design and the arm has the system of drilling machine like for drilling tunnel for breacking the space rock in small peaces the arm hold the space rock and the pointy arm are solar lens for melting miniral into stone or glass.
Sonyoooo3 2 years ago
Mount Zoin god will take people free of heaven
bass109 2 years ago
wow they make it look soo easyyy.
MTran0708 2 years ago
When will space ship two launch? It feels like its been forever since spaceship one took off years ago.....press release?
shon9514 2 years ago
in 2011 for USA
pilsvern 2 years ago
"the video and images will be theirs to share to their children, and grandchildren"
by that time, my grandchildren are my age, they'll probably be going to jupiter and mars as a school trip so when i show them this video they'll be bored to tears. well, hopefully humanity will reach this.
endlsswing 2 years ago
THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!!!
TheMasterCylinder 2 years ago
i love virgin
therocket88 2 years ago
Wow coolio.
The animations are freaky
solnce71 2 years ago
Nice one!
drVitall 2 years ago
LOL if i was reicarnated in the year 2525 i think i would love to have this ship...
dwadwaza 2 years ago
really 500 years? u know 500 years ago people still thought the earth was the centre of the universe...
bobojr456 2 years ago 2
I wonder if they could do also a port on the moon and allow us to walk around there and experience the moon
BQSurfer 2 years ago
It's only a matter of years a way i guess!
snare123 2 years ago
I just grin when I see this video because I remember as a kid watching movies like "spacecamp" or when NASA would ask "How would you like to be an astronaut someday?"
No thanks to you NASA. You gave us nothing but an impossible dream and patronized us with things like kids spacecamp. Fuck you NASA! Thank you Burt Rutan, Richard Branson, and Paul Allen.
dude58677 2 years ago 2
In 10 years this would be a dumb thing to look at, space travel would kinda normal. I wouldn't spend a dime on space travel now, unless you're gonna die soon
saultube44 2 years ago
I get where your coming from, BUT, where would the money for all that jazzy space hardware of the future come from if people didn't spend "dimes" today? Where would the safety of "kinda normal" be developed from if it weren't for the pioneers learning to do it today. On our dimes.
AEigner 2 years ago
Dear All,
I have some questions about psychology:
Why do we enjoy flying? What does cause us to love aeroplanes and space-crafts? Why we like to travel to space?
Please contribute your creative ideas and brainstorms.
THANK YOU in ADVANCE!
applesweeter 3 years ago
Its natural instinct for humans to be curious about the unknown
coulditbekronau 3 years ago
It's not just flying, it's breaking beyond our boundaries and going out to places we haven't been before. Sailing was huge before flying ever was.
LemmingAttack 2 years ago
Incredible! My wife and I were living in Mojave California during the flight test of spaceship on and witnessed the test flights from our back yard. This was a history in the making. We also got to see the space shuttle come over our house at about 10,000 feet to land at Edwards airforce base when it could not land in Florida. "Space, the begining frotier."
lorrieandmatt 3 years ago 3
Trippy sound effects!
Danny77uk 3 years ago
Ill go when it costs a hundred bucks.
ehawww 3 years ago
i know and go to camp at a place they will be launching htese things from
alexxerth 3 years ago
OMG, i would have but this 6 min trip if i'm rich! it's worth it.
procast 3 years ago
have any space tourists been to space yet with virgin galactic??????????
sourmanofcoal 3 years ago
Well, Richard Branson was technically a tourist when he flew in his Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne. But they haven't flown SpaceShipTwo yet.
TheRealSiguy 3 years ago
haven't done that yet? hahaha, when o when are they gonna start shuttling tourists into space? o when o when... lol
sourmanofcoal 3 years ago
There have been a few space tourists on the ISS. However, they payed about $25 million, the cost of SpaceShipOne's research, development, and construction.
SpaceShipTwo will fly its first tourists next year at $200,000 per person, then later at $20,000 a person.
Hopefully SpaceShipThree will be both cheaper and orbital.
TheRealSiguy 3 years ago
I dont think its open yet
atheelogos 3 years ago
I'd definately pay 80 grand for 2 week vacation in space, but not 200 grand for 6 minutes.
Although nice effort)
sashaaprah 3 years ago
looks like you have 80 grand to waste. this space travel is obviously for the rich.
sourmanofcoal 3 years ago
man!! that's so cool,, im gonna save me some money to go out into space when im old,,yeah!!..
--peace--
cocktailmolotov12 3 years ago
I like this design better, the newer one looks too much like a normal small learget.
9TKyuubi 3 years ago
Screw David Blaine. I want to go.
LeLimeLine 3 years ago
We have chosen three Champions for us to go into Space. Since we can't afford it they can go up for us!
David Blaine creating a performance in Space.
Matt Drudge First major Internet Reporter to travel into Space.
And when we can afford it someone from our Family!
We hope Virgin Galactic would consider David Blaine and Matt Drudge as it would be great PR and really help promote Space Travel.
tongassberry 3 years ago
Yeah, like Virgin Galactic's hurting for publicity? The only way putting Matt Drudge in a space ship would make sense would be if the Ansari X prize was replaced by something where they reward whoever is the first to lob a major Internet asshole into space and then leave him there.
FormerlyFlightsuit 3 years ago
On second thought, maybe if Drudge had that life-changing epiphany experience of looking down at his home and seeing the curvature of the Earth while floating in near weightlessness, well, maybe he'd get himself a little humility and stop being such a damned asshole.
FormerlyFlightsuit 3 years ago
Matt Drudge will be up there so that they can see what happens if you throw someone out the airlock, right?
TheRealSiguy 3 years ago
how many "enterprises" have space ships to fly?
markoalmeidapereira 3 years ago
Agenti esclusivi per l'Italia Vigin Galactic
Un sogno trasformato in realtà:
Your Pryvate Italy in collaborazione con 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
EventieSpettacoli 3 years ago
I can't wait till SS2 and/or WK2 are complete... Brilliant minds at work... gotta love making history for a living!
mikeatx79 3 years ago 3
Nice animation a bit boring but nice
all4HSV 3 years ago
omg scary
solnce71 3 years ago
Well, spaceshipone got much, much lower than the rockets that NASA ESA etc. used.
laurens890 3 years ago
Spaceshipone also doesn´t need multiBILLION budget (paid from taxes) just keep basic infrastructure running.
OkurkaBinLadin 3 years ago
Burt Rutan is getting his information from Robert Goddard and not from NASA. NASA got their informaiton from Robert Goddard. Goddard first used liquidated oxygen back in the 20's and this is used for space rockets. Burt Rutan also invented the "feathered configuration" which slows the descent of space craft eliminating the need for heated reentry.
dude58677 2 years ago
Common, everyday access to space would only happen if a civilian, rather than governmental agency got into space tourism. I see that with SpaceShip One/Two it is happening. Nothing, short of war, spurs on rapid development like capitalism. Now that Xcor is also getting involved with the space tourism business Virgin may soon get some competition, futhering progress. But the merging of NASA with the civilian space industry in about twenty years furthers Moon and Mars colonization.
Jaydroid 3 years ago 3
actually at that altitude you are still in the atmosphere(thermosphere), not even in the outer boundary of the Earth's atmosphere.
laurens890 3 years ago
Human beings just achieve what they want. That scares me.
fierced1989 4 years ago
may be but only we work together
yvan1401 3 years ago
"if"..
yvan1401 3 years ago
That is one of our greatest attributes.
roecar 3 years ago
Well, actually we can't achieve anything what we want.
laurens890 3 years ago
does the spaceshiptwo have a "lavatory" or else how are you gonna have these bunch of old guy's riding in it? oh, just one more thing. You get to go to different worlds and stars for only 20 bucks of weed in the downtown.(five bags)..you save a hell of a lot of money! XD
CamiloSanchez1979 4 years ago
The safety angle is that the craft is very simple. Full credit too to NASA who are taking the Virgin Galactic project seriously. By the way, the prototype first flew in 2004 so this is for real. Once it comes down to a price the average person can handle, even if they finance it (say the rice of a small car), watch the rush.
taffymarsden 4 years ago
The helmets in the animation are just for show - the craft is designed to carry people in their shirt-sleeves if they wish. The actual passengers won't be wearing helmets. The experience will be awesome - not just the excitement of the rocket acceleration (2200 ft a second - faster than a bullet) but the weightlessness and silence of space. Apparently they are even turning of the ventilation fans so there is absolutely no sound during the weighlessness period.
taffymarsden 4 years ago 4
Take NASA's budget and give it to Burt Rutan......NOW!!!!!
chipfire 4 years ago 9
one hell of a animation!!! eh?? amazing
davegtar 4 years ago 3
At first i thought this was just something we are coming up with in the future, but holy shit, i didn't think was possible. This is amazing.
lumixenz 4 years ago 10
MY NAME IS HEB4X! & I WANNA FLIGHT THE SpaceShipTwo O.o
pierreremond 4 years ago 3
If I ever have the chance in my life...I'll do this...
jumpguy2007 4 years ago 10
me too!!! This look like fun.
samal4 4 years ago 6
not for me....
Phil98000 4 years ago
Oh wow, this is it, this is one of the moments I have been dreaming of, space travel to the PUBLIC, the people, when you really look at the abstractive setting of the idea itself, its just, phenomenal. . .highest respect to these people, and it is NOT involved with the Government =]
Brodamir 4 years ago 10
I heard a company might be starting up in Ontario, Canada sometime in 2009 with pricing starting at 50-100K CDN for suborbital flights like this. It's only gonna get cheaper folks, majority of you here watching this video will go into space, or suborbital space, many times in your life.
tuor1984 4 years ago 3
Hummm... that's really cool... given a chance I would send ppl to their for a $???... wait for me... and I mean IT...
bgb76 4 years ago
i want dis fo christmas :D
blurpboy 4 years ago
Wow. He's definitely taking this seriously. That's good to know.
KillahMate 4 years ago 5
No safety regulations...no regulations at all.
No ruoles - No rules to break
CorinneMarguerite 4 years ago
I wanna go! I wanna go!
siekacz 4 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
if they gave me a free ticket in this rocket plane i wont go. any thing gets wrong it will be a disaster especially when the rocket ignites. I've seen a rocket disaster before i just couldn't believe it i cannot accept it to my self.
NOBLEHAWK888 4 years ago
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
kendalla59 4 years ago 6
Blood sweat tears is an noble honorable and a must sacrifice for exploration for those that have the insight of human spirit as well as preserving the human race by getting us not so dependant on just ONE ROCK.
I'm not dissing war its an necessary duty to preserve freedom and rights for sentience but we spend a lot of blood on war when it should be spent on exploration.
hoppermantis 4 years ago 11
Wise words. +1
toothpik00 4 years ago 2
Thank You. I know the core thinking behind the words are just and true to our survival of the far future. Not just for natural disasters, but it would ease pollution as well. Our pursuit for new and better tech, new resources as alloy, composite and stronger lighter base material compisitions through manafacture in zero-gravity not to mention time in a harsh enviorment to make disputes seem not so big and more enlightenment of respect for our eco-system. :)
hoppermantis 4 years ago 2
This is a dreamy thought but also, hopefuly people will someday relize it isnt necessary to breed like rabbits taxing resources needed for exploratin or the future, which is basicly being more sencitive for our surroundings including fellow sentience. One can only hope this can be our future.
hoppermantis 4 years ago 4