Stephen Attenborough - Part 2 - The Future of Space Tourism

Stephen Attenborough is the Commercial Director for Virgin Galactic, the worlds first space tourism agency. Stephen described the evolution of Virgin Galactic and gave an overview of the technology they will be using, in large part due to the engineering skills of Burt Rutan. The upcoming renaissance of space travel was also discussed as the potential benefits of suborbital flights and access for researchers to conduct zero gravity experiment was outlined.

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[zapfanzapfan]

Chuck Yeager had broken a rib, not a collarbone, just before he broke the sound barrier. But still, what a guy!

[SailorBarsoom]

Some of the comparisons between NASA-big-rocket and Virgin-sweet-rocket are unfair, in that it simply TAKES more energy to put something into orbit than it does to put that same something on a suborbital trajectory.