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  • GET ON ICKE!

  • love the video man

  • rod or orb at 126sec

  • Great !

    BLV !

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  • wow this is awesome. u see that landing? love it.

  • well, i think we can all tell by the number of views that this is the devil's work. ;)

  • @SixJigglyMoobs well I think that by ur comment we can all tell that u are a troll.

  • this turns me on

  • Funny the gear made it sound like a foamy when it rolled by!

  • Burt you need a hair cut man!! Your baby flew nice! :)

  • super fantastic....

  • Waow

  • If that guys a virgin then I'm definitely not getting any action.

  • SandustanBrasov

    Thus, the universal vehicle will contains: 1).-the body strenght frame; 2).-the thermonuclear controlled reactor; 3).-coolling devices; 4).-reactive electromagnetic motors for drive force and for orientation. At this vehicle, with the steering-wheel or separate commands aid, we direct motors' traction force on any displacement way. The possibilitiys of adaptation and using such vehicles are unlimited in any domain: transport, energy, mining, agriculture,building, dwellings...

  • @sandustanBrasov Sit down and shut up, while the West does the real work.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The magnetic field produced by superconductor coil, is transformed in electromagnetic field which can evolve in space and will produce the reaction force. The superconductive coil will be supplyed with permanet current at 35...40 kV. This motor is an antigravitational motor, but this will constitute the principal device- indispensable -in the realization the magnetic trap for the thermonuclear controlled reactor!

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The reactive electromagnetic motor isn't one invention, it is 100% impression of one part from the schema in the tomb stone from Palenque; which is not sculptured or carved, but is pressed in one die, and mean that it was not performed of the primitive man! The motor has: superconductor coil for magnetic field producing; magnetic nozzles, magnetic circuits for variation of magnetic permeability; dielectric rings for changing electric permitivity.

  • SandustanBrasov

    Mikhael angel showed him thermonuclear controlled reactor namely:"And my spirit hasbeen hiden and me Enoh saw the light of those core.Something as an ice stones house arisen and among ice pieces hadbeen alive fire flames.And my spirit beheld a circle which surround with fire that house from its fourth corner to these alive fire rivers which had enclosed the house.And around it they hadbeen seraphs, cherubs and ophamins, these are eternally awake and watch over the glory(ship)"

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Heavenly vehicles with thermonuclear controlled reactor were made and exist of thousands years ago.Nikola Tesla was not mad and the Holy Scriptures deceive not. In the Hebrew apocryphal "Jubilees book" it says about patriarch Enoh that he was with God's angels 7 jubilees(49 years) and they, from a great heavenly ship's board showed him all what exist on Earth and in Skys, this now over 4300 years.

  • SandustanBrasov

    The presenter of theoretical physics and scientific-fantastical scenarious know not that in the Holy Scriptures is speak about the heavenly world and about heavenly ships. The Jews od 2000...3500 years ago named them: pear of fire, the cloud, glory of the God, angel, fire cart, fire whirl, a.s.o. In Iezechil's book it describes the appearance, the landing and the starting of a big cosmical vehicles. Iezechil describes the landing train as a four alive creatures group.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    I had thinked a proposal of realisation to one universal vehicle, good on Earth but and in cosmos. The source of energy is a thermonuclear controlled reactor, and the traction is realized through a set of reactive electromagnetic motors. The realization of these, impose a revision and elucidation to some parts from the actual science, which is strangled of the theoretical physics with a series of metaphysical laws and principles.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    In present we try different vehicles in every medium(submarine, ships, motor cars, trains, airplanes and rockets), and they don't express an optimum garantee neiter for present nor for future. I follow of 50 years the realization of the russians and americans the penetration of the man in cosmos, but the realised progress is not good and sure, but very expensive, very heavy and dangerous.

  • SandustanBrasov

    The test for nuclear fusion realisation on Tokamak's installations and with LASER cannot bring anything new for the energetics' future. I bind the thermonuclear controlled reactor schedule by the Sun model , by the reactive electromagnetic motor schedule from Palenque stone's tombe. You see the my project for thermonuclear controlled reactor.

  • The space ship is MEANT to glide back to earth. It's only powered when heading UP out of the atmosphere. It glide back UNpowered.

    The noise you hear in the video when the space ship is landing is a fly-by from another aiplane, probably the BIG jet that carried the space ship up to it's 40,000 ft release altitude. Hope this helps answer some questions.

  • Oh man....I wish I could work for those guys!!

  • Ok, I give up, where is the engine on the landed craft?

  • @aynanolog When you look in the back, the nozzle is covered since its not a powered flight its only gliding back down. Therefore it probably doesn't have an engine in it just ballast in its place. They'll move on to powered flights soon but this was just a glide to get a feel of the craft. You'll def have no problem seeing the engine when they do powered flights

  • @iPodscreateZombies What is the funny sound then if there is no engine?

  • @aynanolog - well it depends on what you're hearing. Gliding planes still make noises from the wind, stick your head out a car window sometime its fun :) but the engine sound when it lands it most likely the chase plane flying over the ppl recording from the ground. When they do these tests they always have a chase plane to video tape its flight. Afterall, these aren't spectator events for them, they are doing serious testing so VSS isnt the only on in the air

  • @iPodscreateZombies Thank you for your detailed explanaition. So it is just expensive glider yet. Hope the project will go to the next phase and there will be an engine so it could go to the space.

  • Your life just keeps gettin better doesn't it... I'm so envious :)

  • @MegaEpictroll Losers like you ruin youtube...... does your life feel complete because you told me to shut up, because its kinda sad if it did...... nice one tho.... origional :)

  • @worldspacenews

    you have no qualifications whatsoever and your 'international space agency' is run out of your parents' basement. lol. let the adults (rutan, branson etc.) do their work and stfu.

  • I heard there are many X-planes trials by NASA to launch the capsule from air (e.g. strap a shuttle and piggyback with a 747), but most test are unstable compared to ground base launch, which are more expensive with heavier fuel and due to the amount it needs to carry.

    Does this mean Branson kick NASA ass big time since VSS enterprise have done fewer test with the air launch system, but with much better results?

  • @Guesswhokk Branson had nothing to do with it. He came in after Scaled Composites had the design completed and put up money so his company name could be promoted. Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites out of Mojave California is where the technology was designed, built and flown

  • Cooool!Congratulations!!

  • @proteored156 year!

  • いいねえ

    

  • /watch?v=C3WqXp6QvW0

  • Oh, I left my full comment on the other video... but, in short... I think it would be 'better' for Scaled/Virgin group to sell payload launch services to 'universities' and 'countries' who want to put up ROBOTS, rather than tourists. ROBOTS could discover a REAL DEMAND, that people could be interested in. While tourists riding aboard, will never exceed Lady Gaga's or Justin Bieber's popularity... NEVER. Without public interest... this is just a rich person's toy. Sorry about seeming neg.

  • @doceigen Robots in orbit are called satellites. That is already being done on a regular basis. This is a pioneering effort to make space accessible to regular persons. Presently only a few governments have the technology to put persons in space. Eventually that will change but there must be pioneers who blaze the trail.

  • Yeah Right! For the common man who has 200k for spare!

  • @jgarnettq Originally air travel was priced out of range of the common man also but we are all witness to the fact that things changed. The first computers well unavailable to any except governments or universities. As such things become economically viable as well as physically possible the price will come down.

  • It is necessary that right pilot and left pilot are the perfect pair.

    Don't move the stick to the other side at the same time.

  • They should play the freaky music from "2001 space odyssey" in the background of this video

  • I'll book as soon as I have the cash for a ticket : )

  • Amazing job.

  • Absolutely fantastic. Congrats Rutan & team. Wonderful progress towards commercially available spaceflight. Go Virgin Galactic!

  • I hope I'm still alive when this is finally ready! I would love to buy a ticket! Yea!!! Space Travel for the common man! I love it!

  • Burt Rutan is my hero!

  • Virgin is very good!!!Congratulations!Kiss♥♥

  • Virgin is very good!!!Congratulations!Kiss♥♥♥

  • I'm sorry but, what was special about this?

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  • why pour water ?? their face says it is not happy. a fuckface. this is why here is no genius in this earth.

  • ~~~~~~~~~

  • To Infinity................

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  • @jwil2570 - and Beyond..............

    :-)

  • Awesome!

  • good to see twin fuselage in use....

  • WOOOAAAA! Fickin awesome!

  • She's a beauty!

  • beautiful!!

  • better reserve a room @ rio grande motel-nm.com

  • AND THAT ladies, and gentlemen... is how it's done.

    Burt Rutan, A name that will live through the ages

  • Woot! Boldly go where no private enterprise has gone before!

  • Just watch the movie "What about Bob?", it sums it all up: Baby steps.

    We did not pop out of the womb ready to run the Boston Marathon, and space travel is the same, it takes time. 100 years from now ppl will fly from the Earth to the moon like wr fly from LA to NYC.

    What was the deal with the nose gear, looked like it was not locked down?

  • The sink rate during approach had me concerned but the pilot greased in one very sweet landing!! WOW!!!

  • impressive

  • Never forget the name... Enterprise.

  • shitty...

  • @SlavyaninRus How so?

  • @Darrknox shitty!

  • @SlavyaninRus Ah, I see, you're Russian. Shouldn't this look like magic to you?

  • @Darrknox

    lol

    Americans are renting Russian spaceships, not the other way. NASA has got some great ideas but not enough people and money. Btw, all difference between USA and Russia comes down to who captured more Nazi scientists

  • @rainzgb Lmao. Virgin Galactic was created by the British and maintained by both the British and the Americans. Get your shit straight, Russians have nothing to do with it. Besides Russia is dealing with the cutbacks in it's own space tourism program.

  • @rainzgb What happened over 60 years ago has nothing to do with today, dumbass.

    "our" German scientists were helpful in getting us started with the space program but most of it was done without their participation and their certainly hasn't been any input in many decades.

  • @sortie9

    Without their participation? Von Braun was key figure of US space program. But that is not the issue. I am just pissed by underestimation of Russian space program. They had genius like Korolev and others, and it is not fair to mock them with "look like magic" crap!

    BTW I am not Russian o ;-)

  • @rainzgb Yeah. I see lots of misinformation about the space program. Von Braun was a key figure in the development of the Saturn V 1 st stage vehicle. Needless to say he had lots of help. Furthermore none of the Germans were involved in developing the other stages nor the spacecraft itself..the lunar lander, the command module..etc..The vast majority of the complexity of Apollo was in these other components. Most people overlook this.

  • @Darrknox no,it looks shitty

  • @SlavyaninRus You look shitty too you noob

  • @Oberstbonze you suck,faggot

  • Hey people, one last time this is a suborbital vehicle. That means that it goes straight up into space and then straght down, NO ORBIT. Orbital flight takes alot more power and alot more speed. If you want that look to Spacex's Dragon or Boeing CST-100 Capsules. Also Virgin and Scaled have clearly stated that the next vehicle to be produced will be a point to point suborbital vehicle that will go into space and land at a different airport from the one you launched from. Once again, NO ORBIT.

  • @beatlefriend But much faster transportation. This thingy beats Concorde hands down.

  • @beatlefriend Actually, using the same design just give it a bit more power and an airlock, this would make a good replacement for the shuttle. It doesn't need to carry satellites or massive cargo or anything like that, just people. A space taxi as oppossed to a space truck.

  • @beatlefriend but it is still worth it .

  • @beatlefriend Yes I agree but , you go one step at the time!! if you want to make the space travel cheap and commercial , from people space tourist , to many scientist , and more workers up to space!! I thing they will find a way soon!! for cheap travel!! many ideas is at labs right now!! need time, work , passion and money to do it!! money its easy to find ! find the others!!

  • @beatlefriend Actually sub orbital just means a flight into space where the trajectory intersects the parent body. Actually getting into orbit is not that hard if you enter orbit from a two-stage launch however the spaceshiptwo does not have any OMS needed to properly instert and maintain an orbit which is not as hard as exiting orbit. It could be done relatively cheaply but for safety reasons it is not worth it.

  • Right on!!!!!

  • Fantastic! The miracle of modern science and technology

  • Fantastic!

  • @namigw No, it has a hybrid rocket engine. They didn't burn the engine. It was a glide test.

  • @inmytree2003

    Ah i didn't know that, I thought that was a pure glider

  • @forfaksake I'm sure a lot of people said that about the Wright Brothers as well. *rolls eyes*

  • Dear youtubers, i apologize for my previous comment in assuming that a video shot in America by an American company had anything to do with America. Apparently a privately owned company operating within this country has absolutely no responsibility when it comes to the economy of the country they occupy. Go on with your space projects and by all means please fulfill your dreams; just don't expect a standing ovation from the underpaid, underprivileged, and under appreciated working class.

  • @dickyuengling This project is going to be the result of the blood, sweat and tears of a lot of middle class folk that work for Scaled Composites, my father being one of them. When the Wright Brothers built the first airplane, do you think they had solving world hunger or curing AIDS as a goal? No, but with the invention of the airplane, we are now able to get food and medicine to people in far off countries.

  • @alwayshogfan

    This is only the first manned gliding test, it has a rocket that will be used to enter low orbit next time, and they will keep on going from there. In ten years, we'll have monthly if not weekly flights to the moon.

  • @UnknownXV Not low orbit, but sub-orbital. It takes A LOT more power to hit orbit and then more of a heat shield to come back. Still, while VSS Enterprise can't go into orbit, if it can do what it is advertised to, it will get us one step closer to eventually taking passengers to orbit and then beyond.

  • Hats off, Way to go, and Congratulations, to the whole team.

    I would love to be one of the cameramen helping to shoot this bit of history.

  • Awesome! VSS Enterprise FTW!!!

  • это вам не Роисся

  • This is incredible. Congratulations to all involved. It's truly beautiful.

  • indeed, if you can land a plane that you've never landed before like that, it's either a brilliantly designed plane or a brilliant pilot. @lonelygentleman, which one is true? ;)

  • @kmichaelaye Probably both.

  • Продолжение

    .....включает собственные двигатели и разгоняется до больших скоростей и высот 100-200 и выше км ,что позволяет выйти на круговую орбиту .После кратковременного полета аппарат приземляется на аэродроме. Почему так ? Подъем космического смаолета на высоту в разреженное пространство атмосферы га грузовом самолете позволяет съэкономить топливо на разгонном участке -с земли ,тем самым получить экономию средств .

  • Замысел этого проекта - малыми материальными затратами обеспечить доступность околоземного космического пространства .Создан небольшой аппарат много разового использования ,имеющий вид самолета .Он приземляется в финальной части ролика .Этот аппарат на стартовом этапе прикрепляется к более мощному грузовому самолету особой конструкции . Эта " сборка" взлетает ,поднимается на большую высоту - прибл 20-30 км , и там космический самолет ,отцепляется от базового разгонного самолета

  • @jmantheburninator

    I apologize for the first and last sentence of my previous comment. I just get a little perturbed when people complain about what SpaceShipTwo does and is. Myself and many others put countless hours of hard work into it, and it hits a soft spot. It really is an amazing machine though

  • Туристические суборбитальные космические полёты (начиная с 2012 года) и запуски небольших искусственных спутников. В будущем компания планирует предложить своим клиентам и орбитальные полёты.

  • Wow you people are ignorant. THIS WAS A TEST! In the very near future, SpaceShipTwo will drop from the mothership, where it will rocket up into space 62 miles above our earth. The vehicle is extremely safe and according to TSC, several of them will be built to take people into space. This project is privately funded which is one of it's more well known attributes. Do some fucking homework before you bitch about it.

  • все прикольно, но напишите плиз зачем нужен и функции...

    а то так вроде интересно, а нафига - не понял)))

  • Man, I have ready some uninformed answers here. This test was a drop test only. This was not the way it will be in a few months. The space plane was released in this test from 45,000 feet and glided back to Earth. In a few months a rocket motor will be installed and the space plane after being dropped at 45,000 feet will soar up to the edge of space 62 miles before gliding back for a landing. Eventually a newer model will be point to point and be able to travel from LA to Tokyo in 2 hours.

  • i also want to be a test pilot

  • As to those who think it's a waste of money or a cool way to kill yourself, those points may be true; however, the shuttle has a known 62% chance of a catatrosphic failure. Spaceship II is far safer and as safe as any small aircraft. It is traveling much slower during re-entry such that the angle is no longer important. And no one can really dictate how another spends his money, so I don't even try to understand it. To another, a box of Cheerios can be considered a waste.  It is to me...

  • @BRegal78 62%? You pulled that number out of your ass. That's ridiculous..it's not even close to that.

  • @FireOFK There is no front wheel, just a "skid." This was done to conserve weight. All of the steering is done by differential braking of the main gear. As far as space goes, boundary recognized by many in the space industry is the Karman line at 62 miles (100 km), which is a debate in itself. Spaceship II does cross this boundary; however, it can'tachieve orbit like the shuttle as it is not going fast enough. You can achieve weightlessness, but more because of trajectory than altitude.

  • @BRegal78

    Close. It's *always* trajectory. Even in LEO, gravity is nearly the same as it is on the surface, but an object "falling" in a proper arc will just keep falling in a circle around the planet, hence the continuous perceived microgravity aboard. Suborbital flight just doesn't go fast enough to fall "around" the world, and must re-enter.

  • i'm just curious why is the front wheel and front wheel arm so tiny?

    Congratulations! :)

  • Superb

  • i love this

  • I really don't understand this vehicle. Why are there two parts to it? Is the middle shuttle supposed to go into space? and If so why is it such an accomplishment to glide to a landing. I'm not trying to project a sarcastic tone here I just don't understand

  • @jmantheburninator Yes the middle ship will go to space, this is because they save a lot of money this way, instead of burning the rockets from ground, they burn them in high altitude. The gliding was important because after the rockets burn, there won't be any other propulsion than free fall, and is not like a normal glider, it will contain a lot of weight, like the shuttle.

  • @floritaka Oh i see. I thought it had already been sent into space successfully that's what was confusing me. Thanks for not being an asshole about the question too, I appreciate the maturity.

  • @LinuxTux37 thank you for a real, not sarcastic answer.

  • @jcspider because they're incredibly unhappy and want to escape their lives.

  • Burt Rutan FTW!

  • WOW........A new way for people to die. What an accomplishment and a waste of money! Hooray 

  • @Crazyfuqndude lol, ur just paranoid of airplanes... and btw how is this a waste of money!! this is good to see how much we can achieve and develop. Amazing ain't it? :D

  • Cool.

  • @minnesotafool This is a test of the mothership and spacecraft, which in several years will provide flights to space to anybody with the money for it. If you have the fortune it costs to go up to space in this, hop on.

  • There is a rocket on the glider (middle section that drops away from mother ship), which ignites after separation. Watch other footage from their site (of other test flights) and you will see it.

  • @alwayshogfan

    so funny to see posts from people that don't have a clue what they are commenting on.

  • Hell yea.. I'd blaze a fat blunt n go into space.. Fuckin space monkey lol

  • @MrIskra lmfoa nice one xD

  • 3 planes in one? IN SPACE???!!!

  • wow i dont get why people are getting mad. its an advancement in technology so that people can get to space easier. instead of building a huge expensive rocket that can be use only one time. if you dont know what it is stop saying its a waste of money

  • @hoboninjas People are getting mad because everybody is selfish and this doesn't directly benefit any of them in an immediate manner.

    Hence they don't give a crap.

  • i liked it before the video even started :P

  • nice stunt, but i dont see why this is in the science and tech. section...this is just entertainment

  • @roflwaffle12321 the plane goes to space - _ -

  • This is fricken cool...could somebody please explain to me what it's even for though?

  • @minnesotafool Why do people go to the beach? Why do people climb mountains? Why go people go sightseeing?

  • @minnesotafool

    A lot of folks said that about the airplane, the computer, and the bicycle, at some point in the past.

  • Basic rundown is space tourism. They charge big bucks to take people up into space like satellites. Orbit the earth once every 3 hours or what ever it takes and re-entry land. Get's idea's flowing for when they want to colonize the moon. Branson wants to be the "greyhound" of space so to speak.

  • Amazing !

  • Pushing the boundaries of what is or is not possible. 150 years ago, flight was a fancy among human kind, a dream. What if the Wright brothers never decided to test the limits of their imagination? If we are to never use the brain given to us to achieve such greatness, then again I say, step away from your computer and watch the stars and wonder, but tempt not. Or test the limits of your gift and see what comes of it. Again, cheers Sir Richard Branson and Team Virgin Galactic.

  • You guys act like our taxes pay for this.. They don't, Virgin Galactic is a private company who makes it's own money. They should be able to spend their money as they please.

  • Брэндсон велик хуле

  • it was pretty badass....untill they released it

  • So they took this to the edge of space and then landed gracefully without burning up? Well, this is a step up from the space shuttle. Wait can the mothership be reused?

  • @AppalachianScholar18 -- 45,000 ft is *not* the "edge of space"; it's barely higher than what a transcoast airliner flies. Nor is this a "step up" from the space shuttle, which flies 13 times higher and 25 times faster than this vehicle. The mothership can be reused, but only serves very specific -- and limited -- purposes.

  • @wspaceport

    Well, I was being optimistic. I was hoping it was the edge of space. Actually if it did reach the edge of space then it would be superior to the space shuttle regardless of speed or altitude. It just looked lame to me. Hey why don't they put a rocket on the glider? That seems like the obvious next step.

  • @AppalachianScholar18 There is a rocket on the glider (middle section that drops away from mother ship), which ignites after separation. Watch other footage from their site (of other test flights) and you will see it.

  • @wspaceport NASA should seriously consider licesensing[sp?] Brason's Spaceship 2 tech for their next generation space shuttle. Better yet, give them a list of requirements and specifications (and a contract) and let them go to town on it. See what those crazy geniuses can come up with.

  • Congrats to the Virgin Space Systems team! Maybe we'll see you at Oshkosh again next year.

  • how about showing it us the plane glide the space like it built to do?

  • What is the point.