Virgin Galactic launched its first spaceflight with civilians onboard, allowing the three passengers to experience weightlessness and giving them a view of Earth from altitude of about 53 miles.
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#VirginGalactic #Space #SpaceTourism
It’s not even a space flight… It’s just a roller coaster reaching apogee. No different than the vomit express. Wanna go to space, ride a rocket this is just a side show
God bless technology
This was way cooler than I thought it would be.
I am impressed no one said that this is fake
it doesnt need to be fake, because they are not in space.
Someone forgot to tell the reporter that going to space as a tourist doesn’t make you an Astronaut. An Astronaut is a specialized job classified by having a “safety sensitive role in the mission”. Buying a ticket to space does not make you one. Technically speaking the two pilots are, though. And they technically didn’t go to space because they didn’t pass the Karman line.
@James Brown True, still not space, or astronauts.
@Jesse Be Truckin’ so what would you call them ?
I don’t have a good name for their adventures
@rohultima How about, overpriced ultra high altitude plane enthusiasts.
Isn’t Karman Line at 100km?
@Prestallar yup. 62 miles. They went up 55 miles.
Fun fact, NASA “destroyed” the technology that got us in space the first time, why……
How about point a camera out of the window or all of them? Nah?
Nothing cool about this. All this for nothing, you are destroying our climate. People complain about our car exhaust and yet this is thousands time worse and injecting directly into our atmosphere. All for your tiny quick joyride. Ridiculous
Let’s go $SPCE
Are they wearing parachutes?
No sound because the loud rocket sound will scare future customers off.
That does not make them astronauts!
Flat Earthers should join hands and fund a ticket for themselves.
lol. this isnt space or zero g. its freefall.
@jdogsful can they see the earth from up there?
Genuine question: is the flat earth debate settled now?
no. not in space, not in zero g, fisheye.
They’re not in space, they didn’t reached the Karman Line and are in a sub-orbit.
At those altitudes they’re at they won’t see the Earth’s actual shape.
Once something is labeled conspiracy it can never be resolved. If things start to become clear they will muddy the waters with proper gander such as.
Nice it didn’t designate this time
i love that the rich are the ones being the test dummies. paying money to be a test dummy
They are not rich they won a lottery ticket and both were a mom-daughter duel. Probably rich people wanted to test first on willing people by doing lottery system for those who can’t afford it . Good think they came back well
@dogLover there was more people than 2 and every other civilian space flight isnt lottery. they are paying to be test dummies in space so they can build a space hotel and dummies can pay even more to test space hotels
Liars trying to get rich
I bet it ain’t fun till you get back. The ship looks like they maximized the size of a blow dryer and attached it to massive butane torch. Don’t make me build one.
Why don’t I know any of those people?
Sheboons in space.
I would love to do this
The theme from Moonraker “Flight Into Space” should start playing in the cabin.
1 minute from 44000 feet to outer space? Can someone please show me the marh?
that means that space is safer then deep sea
We don’t even know enough about space to determine what could be out there that we haven’t seen yet.
You say that like you just discovered Space flights just today😂
Now civilians can finally see that the earth is round and NOT flat.
lol. how blind are you? they were not in space, werent in zero g and they are using fisheye. this is lunch for flat earthers.
I can just hear the Flat earth community saying this is all CGI .They don’t like irrefutable evidence of earths actual shape 😂
but the earth is flat ?
Maybe your brain is
@Sablino was being sarcastic , bro
@Kerri You need to build up your Humour better, You don’t look Sarcastic saying that.
@Sablino that’s because perhaps YOUR brain is flat.
Lol they’re less than 73 miles up because they would hit the firmament
Everybody gangsta till the pilot’s last name is Kerman
Do you need a passport to go into space?
Horse dung.
they arent in space, its not space flight. stop the cap NBC
They’re not Astronauts! This is a dangerous stunt to be sending unqualified civilians into space. I hope it never happens. But They’re playing with fire!
Did they pay for their seats or is this a charity ride?
Each person is holding praying they’re not the next total submersible.
women have awesome hair in space
How nice. Really rich people who are inured to everything ; all of the sensations and pleasures of earthly life. They can raise the bar to ….. whatever. What is the next high you can pay for?
at least they can die fulfilling their Life…
This is pretty cool. ❤
The actual way that they carried the space craft up with a carrier, then detached it from the carrier it all looked like it went way smoother cleaner and easier than the way they usually launch space shuttles from the ground.
It’s not using tons of fuel, it’s not burning fuel like a normal rocket 🚀 that has a huge after burn that’s probably what’s helping in burning a hole through the ozone and claiming it’s green house gasses doing it when the after burn and fuel burn off of the bigger rockets 🚀 and the friction probably have a huge significant role in damaging the ozone. I like how smooth and how easy and the way this particular launch went in this video a whole lot less friction and a very small after burn.
Wait, where is all that climate change narrative or billions and billionaires don’t count? I started thinking that it’s all a BS.
Astronauts? 🤣 I been in a hospital before. Does that make me a doctor?………
Yes!
it did not reach space we are already in space. all of us. did you mean outer space …well they also did not this was only a parabllic curve flight. or free fall. they went high but not high enough
Aliens be like ..”about time..,we been doing this before the dinosaur days”..🤫😁👻🤸👈
I feel a Titan story coming from above!
How difficult to put a camera to see what they see?
Moment of silence for all the flat earth peeps that will need to change their screen names and delete profiles soon
I wonder if they require everyone to shampoo that morning to reduce the number of hairs that break off and float around the cabin..
They don’t pay for the flight. They are paid to lie.
maybe they scared the aliens in peru by doing this.
Virgini Galactic = Pixar Studios 😂😂😂😂 people will belive anything
About time they use my ideah about launching from the air
Send a flat earther up there
CGI
An experimental tiny vessel with a handful of civilians and crew at a height that very few people have gone where anything could go devastatingly wrong at any second. Sounds familiar…
“There are officially astraunots:
Smh
Flat earthers punching air rn
The days are nearing when 24hr flights from one destination to another will be reached in few hours. We may not be able to witness fastest traveling from one point to to another, but in next 50 years it will become so common and cheaper for travelers.
Sure… they’ve been saying that since the Wright brothers took off.
🍀🍀🍀🍻🤓
Tell me about global warming now!
Why does it look fake. 😮
No way do I want to do this; I’d be terrified (not that I can afford it).. however I would BAWL my eyes out. Seeing the earth from there. Wow.
So overwhelming but incredible
Isn’t that guy still stuck in the international space station? Waiting for a new transfer rocket. And new suit and new rules and here they are flew up and about to come down.
See how the women’s hair flows like they’re under water? Now compare that to the footage from the fake space station where their hair sticks straight up because it’s hosed down in hair spray.
Air bubbles at 2 min point. Doesn’t that only happen underwater?
Is half this shot in that NASA water staging pool? Hmmm
Just another accident waiting to happen sad but true im sure it will make headlines of how that craft burst into pieces or the crew gets lost in space the rich are not that brilliant
Fish eye pens at every angle. They are still under the firmament and are just free falling 😂😂😂😂
You know more than them?
bro this looks so much like cgi for real
Climate change what happened this revelation shows climate change is bs
Next flight should be reserved for flat earthers.
Don’t envy them. Those people are going to suffer from depression that nobody on earth has experienced…when they arrive back on the planet and reality hits them again.
If they make it back.
But it’s too expensive to go to the moon 😂
Congrats to all the virgins who reached space today.
Stunning and brave
A W E S O M E !!!!!!!!!!
👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 *HOWS IT FEEL IN A OUTER BODY EXPERIENCE???* 🤐🤫🤐
They AREN’T astronauts. That word still has meaning. Stop watering down language.
Bring back the dislike button joe biden haha
Yawn
It’s just like totally awesomely incredibly incredible and incredibly incredible awesome incredible.
The look of awe😮 in the young ladies eyes 👀 says it all. Experience they will never forget 🎉❤.
View from space, 🌎🌍 so beautiful ❤️. Get below the heavens, people and everything else is a hot mess.
Idiots completely oblivious to the concept of hydrocarbon emissions. Do you see this as some sort of viable future propulsion system? It’s like 18 times the hydrocarbon spew of the entire Ventura freeway during Rush hour
Stop calling it a space flight. It was 10 miles short of the Karman Line.
This is what life is about, imagine if we were born with specific paths to choose from not based of capitalistic ideals but more of the advancment of human evolution and civilization such as, space engineers/astronaughts, wildlife conservers, enviormental specialists that keep the planet green and use energy from natural recources without damading our plaent, construction workers but for a more futuristic society that uses ai and robots to build, Space explorers and marine explorers, imagine if those types of jobs were all we were offered wed be so much further but i believe we are headed in that direction anyways. the future is looking bright. As long as we can keep conflict low.
I know for a fact their praising our wonderful God for safety 🙏🏼❤️
Beautiful youngest generation to be out In soace !
This is fake where are the ir oxygen mask fighters pilot don’t go that high but have oxygen mask & gear but these people have nothing this is so fake
I just thought of the fifth element. I don’t know why how the roads were and that’s how we were going to be in the future food signs everywhere just like fifth element.!
Do not wear braids in space?
After the Submarine fail a couple of months ago, I’m so glad this was a successful flight.
Females are huge trouble for men 😬
Couldn’t see anything with all the hair in the way! I guess we couldn’t put it in a bun for this once in a lifetime occasion
Fake footage
Technically first dreads in space too
Yeah, nobody wants to see woke garbage like this. Blacks have no business in these craft. They are not competent enough and there will be a space disaster if they are on the crew, for certain.
Exploitation – IP marketing stunt multiple patent, trademark, software violations illegal unlicenced products worn by the passengers continually on display
Is the world flat?
Its fake lol …😂😂😂
So what happened to the previous crew ?
Willow Smith is so lucky
America leading the world. Taking the humans to explore the universe. Space unknown made visible to the normal citizens. A great effort and innovation for the humanity entering into the new terrains.
Flat earthers will watch this video and still believe the world is flat.
Awesome