Blue Origin resumes space tourism

RiaX said:
Ya all good but these people flying to the upper limits of the earth's atmosphere with tons of rocket fuel but I must drink from a paper straw ......
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They're just burning basic hydrogen and oxygen
 
A3@MBB said:
How do you think the Wright brothers took the evolution of aircraft & flight a century ago? Most probably had the same thoughts.

One consoling thought is that at least in our lifetime we will not see spaceflight evolution to the extend of planet destroying capabilities.
Orville Wright died with the knowledge that his nation took flight to the extend of dropping A bombs on cities.
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so a new technology only becomes popular when a few rich celebrities go on a fairground ride,
I mean the wright brothers flew around the eiffel tower, an then Aircraft and aviation really took off.

so now that Katy Perry went on a spacecraft, Ou boet from the FS can now?
 
Flanders said:
1960's documentary voiceover: **Here we can see demonstrated how anyone could now visit space without the need for specialized technical skills such as piloting, years and years of advanced training... or functioning cognitive ability of any sort. Now anyone could conquer the final frontier. Even a monkey.**
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only if that Monkey starred alongside Elvis presley, owned a burger chain and had an entire team of make up artists
then and only THEN can anybody go to space, like a sack of very expensive potatoes
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
so a new technology only becomes popular when a few rich celebrities go on a fairground ride,
I mean the wright brothers flew around the eiffel tower, an then Aircraft and aviation really took off.

so now that Katy Perry went on a spacecraft, Ou boet from the FS can now?
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Sure, if he's rich enough. You do know that's how Mark Shuttleworth got up there?
 
Brian_G said:
Sure, if he's rich enough. You do know that's how Mark Shuttleworth got up there?
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Mark shuttleworth had to learn Russian, and went to the ISS and spend a lot longer than 4 min in Orbit,
actually committed some effort into his "spaceflight participation" back before it was fashionable,
actually passed Rosocosmos selection

these chickies just screamed and wailed and posed for the camera.
no skill or effort,

could ou boet drinking his Windhoek go there, yes, 100% agree, if he has the cash
will me or you go there?, hell no, as again its all about how much money are you willing to throw at a billionaire to go to orbit.

same thing locally, wasn't there those people that wanted to go live on mars, that were selected from SA citizens,
where it turned out to be a scam, I remember MYBB did an article on them,

same thing here,
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
same thing locally, wasn't there those people that wanted to go live on mars, that were selected from SA citizens,
where it turned out to be a scam, I remember MYBB did an article on them,

same thing here,
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There was that Peter Stuyvesant's win a trip to space thing - I won a "space" lighter from that, looked like a Star Trek phaser and the flame was like a blow torch :giggle:
 
Brian_G said:
Valid point from my friend - he recons that the door should be much more bulky, to protect from the hazards of low pressure.
What do you guys think?

I'm thinking it's unnecessary as the flight is short, so presuming they just use the high pressure tanks on-board for that.
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Explains the hatch deal.

 
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