You Could Fly to Space (for 200 Grand), Then Float Home Like a Feather [video]
May 20, 2011 by Bobby Travis 
6 Comments
Well, it’s Friday, and a long weekend to boot — we even got some sunshine and warm weather up here in the Pacific Northwest, and that’s no small thing. We were starting to think that Spring had decided to stay home this year. I could go on about that, but there’s a point to my mini-ramble: Today is a day to post yet another Fluffy Cool Video!
This is not the time to think about heavy things, like the ridiculous amount of money that is being poured into Virgin Galactic’s Space Tourism program — or the ridiculous amount of money that it will cost (again, 200 grand) for people to take that pleasure trip to the edge of beyond. We all know there are better uses for that kind of money. If we had that kind of money, though… there’s a good chance we would take that flight anyway. Seriously.
Even if you wouldn’t, I think you’ll agree that watching Virgin’s fancy new flying advertisement in action is pretty frickin’ cool. Especially as it leaves the atmosphere — and then transforms into a soft, floaty feather-plane to survive re-entry.
Neat! – And the giant two-planes-attached-at-the-wing MotherShip ain’t too shabby either.
What do you think of Richard Branson’s new spaceship?
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I like the Richard Branson’s spaceship design. The video is kind cool but I think will be great if we can see what happen or what we can do in that spaceship when leave the atmosphere. Great post anyway :)
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I agree, the design is pretty cool — I wonder if it will lend itself to the design of more practical ships though.
If you want a better design, check out the tongue-in-cheek rendition of a World War II bomber, if Burt Rutan was the head of that design team.
http://www.aerofiles.com/rutan-b17.jpg
Heh — I like it!
These kind of trips are for people that have so much money that they’ve reached a point where they have no use for them anymore.
You get your villa in Ibiza, you get your yacht, your personal plane, your Bugatti Veyron, wake up one morning and look at your bank account trying to figure out what to do with it.
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