Animation of a Virgin Galactic flight from launch to landing

With Virgin Galactic rolling out WhiteKnightTwo on Monday we thought it would be fun to highlight the Virgin Galactic experience. This animation shows what it will be like to takeoff, drop from WhiteKNightTwo, blast in to space aboard SpaceShipTwo, feel what it is like in microgravity for 4 to 5 minutes and then land again safely on the ground.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• galactic
• rocket
• ship
• space
• spaceshiptwo
• spacevidcast
• virgin
• whiteknighttwo

[wojovox]

I want to go, but I don't want to come back.

[darkzerk7]

@cowofthemonth

That's what people said about cars in the 1910's when only a handful of people in the world could afford driving one..

[dudeboyredblue]

@cowofthemonth it will be open to the public in the fall of 2013 for 125,000 dollars

[willtell6]

what if your fat?????

[westex245]

pack the brownies!!

[Jamahran]

• in short Vigin Galactic meets Serenity concept. for having 3 engines: 2 vertical takeoff landing (VTL) engines mechanincs from land to the end of the atmosphere. then the 3rd engine for space travel throught solar pannels or plasma engines (see NASA projects) next gravitational field ( trick of this is we must find a way to create a Gravity chamber that safely regulates gravitational influence then incorporate it on a ship in an reasonable size.

[Jamahran]

Userto be quite honest the hipe i get on this thing is more on perfecting this into a real spaceship instead. of a 10-30 minute filght that so happens to be a "plane" in space.I got some ideas in the closet but I'm not claiming to be science geek or an astronomer for that matter. and I guess it would be cool to have a world-wide discussion on how we should consturct a realistic, fully functional long-term voyage(say earth-moon to start) spaceship (based on the virgin galactic and not a rocket)

[bakhtn]

apparently william shatner was asked to ride on it but was too scared.

[Viniter24]

@lucasjf777 I bet that this doesn't have a worse impact than a flight of standard commercial aircraft to a summer destination and back. From this perspective everybody who travels to a vacation is destroying the Earth.

[ItsJessicaT]

so how long is it from take of to landing?

[VoltageVII7]

@lucasjf777 please explain how this would have a bad environmental impact

[lucasjf777]

someone thought about the enviromental impact?

A lot of rich people will buy travels to the space and, therefore, they will destroy the planet. I´m not an enviromentalist, but i think that this proyect have a very bad impact