Just Watched Virgin Space Flight

**mbauer** · #1 07-11-2021, 09:46 AM

Just watched the Virgin space flight.

Now lots of talk.

Here is the link for the live show: WATCH LIVE: Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream - YouTube

Nice landing.

Mike

**airdave** · #2 07-11-2021, 10:06 AM

Me too.
I watched the entire Virgin Galactic livestream.

Steven Colbert was funny as always...he should have hosted the entire thing.
Annoyed terribly by the commentary and the studio host girl
....why can't they just let us watch and enjoy the flight?

And why was Chris Hadfield there?
Not that I mind, but he only said two words.
lol he looked like he was asking the same question "why am I here? oh yeah...getting paid!"

Too bad they had so much trouble with the live broadcast from the spaceship.
What amazes me, when you saw the few views of the cabin, is that nobody looks out the windows.
My face would have been glued to one window for the duration of the flight.

They seem more interested in the 60 seconds of weightlessness experience.
$250,000, and risking life to fly to the edge of space...for something you could experience in a swimming pool?!

I was amazed at that. As I said, I would have ignored almost everything just to see the views.

Still, an amazing craft...I wish I could experience it.

**Miles Linnabery** · #3 07-11-2021, 10:42 AM

Some were I have got the PDf of the space craft and Assist plane now on what Thumb drive is it Was it a Ralph Currell Model? Enjoyed the Video and I just kept the sound off.
Enjoy,
Miles

**Kevin WS** · #4 07-11-2021, 11:24 AM

Echo your thoughts Dave - go so irritated I turned it off eventually. Life is too short!

**Vermin_King** · #5 07-11-2021, 12:03 PM

Well, I will probably just skip this

Quote:

Steven Colbert was funny as always...he should have hosted the entire thing.

I personally find him to be a poor excuse for comedy, and probably as a human being. I guess we can disagree on something. His presence is enough to make me avoid even a glimpse

**mbauer** · #6 07-11-2021, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by airdave

Me too.
I watched the entire Virgin Galactic livestream.

Steven Colbert was funny as always...he should have hosted the entire thing.
Annoyed terribly by the commentary and the studio host girl
....why can't they just let us watch and enjoy the flight?

And why was Chris Hadfield there?
Not that I mind, but he only said two words.
lol he looked like he was asking the same question "why am I here? oh yeah...getting paid!"

Too bad they had so much trouble with the live broadcast from the spaceship.
What amazes me, when you saw the few views of the cabin, is that nobody looks out the windows.
My face would have been glued to one window for the duration of the flight.

They seem more interested in the 60 seconds of weightlessness experience.
$250,000, and risking life to fly to the edge of space...for something you could experience in a swimming pool?!

I was amazed at that. As I said, I would have ignored almost everything just to see the views.

Still, an amazing craft...I wish I could experience it.

Hi Dave,

Just spent $100 for 2000 chances to win two seats on 2022 flight.

Utility bills are going to be a little late this month....Almost spent my budget for $1000 airplane insurance that is due next month.

Win Two Seats on One of the FIRST Virgin Galactic Flights to Space

I'll take some photos while I'm up there. I'll be the one leaving drool marks on the window as my face will be glued to it!

Mike

**mbauer** · #7 07-11-2021, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Vermin_King

Well, I will probably just skip this

I personally find him to be a poor excuse for comedy, and probably as a human being. I guess we can disagree on something. His presence is enough to make me avoid even a glimpse

That's when I shut it off and did my post here.

With you 100% on this. It was like, are you kidding me?

Mike

**airdave** · #8 07-11-2021, 04:28 PM

Good luck Mike...I hope you win!

Take a rag to wipe up the drool.

**mbauer** · #9 07-11-2021, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by airdave

Good luck Mike...I hope you win!

Take a rag to wipe up the drool.

Well, if I don't have a significant other by then, I'll pick you up in my RV to fly to the launch site!

We can take great photos of the Space Ship for our next project together model...Like the graphics you did for my F104 Stomp Rocket Projects.

Mike

**Damraska** · #10 07-16-2021, 08:08 PM

While I am happy to see the return of reusable spacecraft experiments, I was not impressed with this particular flight.

The craft reached an altitude of about 56 miles / 90 kilometers, well below the altitude where solar ions striking the Earth's atmosphere produce the Aurora. No craft can maintain orbit for very long at that height due to friction with the atmosphere. I realize the FAA calls that space but ... it's not.

To add further context, the X-15 reached an altitude of 354,200 feet (about 69 miles) in 1968 without modern avionics, composite materials, or engines.

It makes me sad that so much knowledge was lost, and that the achievements of the really great engineers of the past go ignored. I want these people to succeed but I also want everyone to understood that they stand on the shoulders of giants.

As for looking out the windows, while I do not know the specifications of the craft, it must pull some gs during the burn. Even an athlete would struggle to move around at 3 times gravity. They were probably too weak to look out the windows during the burn and too tired to look out immediately afterward. Lifting that much weight is exhausting. Anyway, that is my conjecture.

I sorta feel sour grapes because as a kid, I was told I would be living on the moon with androids and spaceships by now. *laughs*