Virgin Galactic marks first solo glide flight

[jes]

Virgin Galactic marks first solo glide flight

Virgin Galactic's space tourism rocket SpaceShipTwo achieved its first solo glide flight Sunday, marking another step in the company's eventual plans to fly paying passengers.

 

[saliehendricks]

With a name like Virgin Galactic, who would not want this to work!

 

[poffle]

pity its $200,000 a flight

 

[murraybiscuit]

awesome.
i'll give it a couple months for things to calm down before using it regularly

 

[Chunkyfeather]

So this the new mile high club benchmark

 

[grok]

Ive got my Saturn tickets pre-booked.

 

[evilsee]

So this the new mile high club benchmark

Except now you only have 25 minutes to, you know, join the club. I wonder if they will have longer flights 25 minutes is to little for me Im afraid

 

[inferno]

Except now you only have 25 minutes to, you know, join the club. I wonder if they will have longer flights 25 minutes is to little for me Im afraid

That was just the test flight. They didn't go into space. I'm sure the actual flight will last longer.

 

[Tpex]

$200 000 thats cheap for such a thing.

but only 11 minutes? meh....

 

[ToAsTeD]

Awesome idea i reckon!

 

[Cube]

3.5hrs is the total flight, I think

total of 6 minutes of weightlessness... could make the mile-high-club application activities interesting, I would imagine...

I suppose it is the ultimate thrill ride. The flight, I mean.