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April 30, 2013
Successful Virgin Galactic Test
Carried aloft from Mojave yesterday by WhiteKnightTwo, SpaceShipTwo was released at an altitude of 14 km. It fired its rocket engines, went supersonic and climbed another 3 kilometers, before safely returning to earth. Future passenger flights can be bought for $200,000; but the craft is intended to go only to 100 km, about 62 miles, which is defined as the border of space. Me, if I was spending a big pile of dough and endangering my life, I'd want to be able to say I really went into space, not just to the edge of it, like this was 1959 or sump'n. I'm saving my money for the half-million dollar orbital journey that I'm sure is coming just a year or two down the road.
Filed under Technology,Travel | permalink | April 30, 2013 at 01:48 PM
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