100 tickets were initially made available at a cost of $200000 each. After the first 100, the price will drop to $100000 and after the first year, it will drop to $20000.That's still hella expensive, but feasible. :cool:
Five minutes? .... .... Seriously?Yeah, but you get what you pay for. That's five minutes IN FRAKING OUTER SPACE!!!
$20,000/(5)60 s =~ $67.00 per second.
Multiply that number by however many people are going to be on the flight.
Now kill yourself. ;7
Too bad it can't go beyond low earth orbit, parked there along with our space program.
Ooh. Bonus points if you can name all the aircraft on the top left without looking them up. :):D
The ship in development has been christened VSS Enterprise. The name is an acknowledgement to the USS Enterprise from the Star Trek television series.
Ooh. Bonus points if you can name all the aircraft on the top left without looking them up. :)Spoiler:SpaceShipTwo
SpaceShipOne
Lunar Module
Boeing 747
Bell X-1 (first aircraft to exceed Mach 1)
Spirit of St. Louis
Wright Flyer
Otto Lilienthal's glider
And yes, I did all those from memory... though I had to think for a while before I remembered Lilienthal's name :D
QuoteThe ship in development has been christened VSS Enterprise. The name is an acknowledgement to the USS Enterprise from the Star Trek television series.
This really turned me off, actually. All of the previous "Enterprises" were military ships, save for the Shuttle, which was named Enterprise by request. It seems to cheapen the legacy somewhat for a private enterprise (pun not really intended) to christen a ship Enterprise, when it's not really going anywhere or doing anything new, other than providing entertainment for the wealthy and powerful.
And I'm claiming the last one (I got the same as Dysko) unless you can prove us wrong :pThat may be. I just figured that all of them would be real-life machines that represented a technological breakthrough of some sort. That choice isn't exactly real-life. :p
I think this is great. NASA has dropped the ball for quite a while over manned spaceflight and achieving space flight at lower costs. They have the big heavy hitter options but nothing in between and it seems that the now successive SpaceShip series offers some of that work on getting in between at reasonable costs. Slow steady progress...maybe in 20 years someone will have a very cost effective solution at getting into space. I just figure the more minds working on it the better :)
QuoteThe ship in development has been christened VSS Enterprise. The name is an acknowledgement to the USS Enterprise from the Star Trek television series.
This really turned me off, actually. All of the previous "Enterprises" were military ships, save for the Shuttle, which was named Enterprise by request. It seems to cheapen the legacy somewhat for a private enterprise (pun not really intended) to christen a ship Enterprise, when it's not really going anywhere or doing anything new, other than providing entertainment for the wealthy and powerful.
This really turned me off, actually. All of the previous "Enterprises" were military ships, save for the Shuttle, which was named Enterprise by request. It seems to cheapen the legacy somewhat for a private enterprise (pun not really intended) to christen a ship Enterprise, when it's not really going anywhere or doing anything new, other than providing entertainment for the wealthy and powerful.
I've heard that the current SpaceShips don't go into orbit, not even into LEO. You'd need much higher velocities, which makes the re-entry rather compicated. That's the reason the Space Shuttle needs heat tiles, and SS2 doesn't.
Hence, it'll be a giant leap to SS3. Where did you get that from? I never heard of those plans before.
admit it, virgin's a whore :D