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Virgin Galactic's next trip to the edge of space will include some familiar names.
The company announced on Wednesday (Oct. 18) that Galactic 06, its fifth commercial spaceflight, has a flight window that opens on Nov. 2, 2023. The flight will be Virgin Galactic's sixth spaceflight in as many months and will see its reusable space plane VSS Unity reach an altitude of about 54 miles (87 kilometers) above Earth, enough for its passengers to experience weightlessness and see the blackness of space.
Those passengers will include an unnamed private astronaut of Franco-Italian nationality; planetary scientist Alan Stern, the principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons Pluto mission, and Kellie Gerardi, a science communicator and bioastronautics researcher for the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS). Both will be conducting research during the flight related to the effects of spaceflight on the human body, while Stern will also "conduct practice activities for an astronomical experiment" set for an upcoming NASA flight,
originally posted by: BeyondKnowledge3
a reply to: MainFrameGamerz
You do realize that this is the way things always have been. The rich had the first cars. The rich had the first production airplanes. The rich pay for things when they are very expensive. Later the price goes down as things are made cheaper and more afordable. But without the rich paying for the most expensive development, the rest never would have cars or air travel.
We are at the level of those that can afford it to use these trips as a status symbol. This is not travel. That comes later.
You do realize Columbus discovered the new world by convencing some rich people to pay the way to get them richer? Discovery, not so much.
I am curious about what experiments can be performed in this flight that have not already been done by NASA in the 60s? I mean the weightlessness only lasts minutes. Something of so little importance that they could not be bothered to ask those on the ISS to do it in their spare time? It could not be very elaborate at all.
originally posted by: BidenOperator
originally posted by: BeyondKnowledge3
a reply to: MainFrameGamerz
You do realize that this is the way things always have been. The rich had the first cars. The rich had the first production airplanes. The rich pay for things when they are very expensive. Later the price goes down as things are made cheaper and more afordable. But without the rich paying for the most expensive development, the rest never would have cars or air travel.
We are at the level of those that can afford it to use these trips as a status symbol. This is not travel. That comes later.
You do realize Columbus discovered the new world by convencing some rich people to pay the way to get them richer? Discovery, not so much.
I am curious about what experiments can be performed in this flight that have not already been done by NASA in the 60s? I mean the weightlessness only lasts minutes. Something of so little importance that they could not be bothered to ask those on the ISS to do it in their spare time? It could not be very elaborate at all.
Ah yes, the old "Trickle Down Economics", applied to technology.
What you fail to acknowledge is that that leaves the masses perpetually behind, while the disparity continues to grow.