So we've had the X-Prize threads and similar and reports on Jeff Bezos's secret plans and the like but might as well have a new general one now that Branson and Rutan are making more formal announcements:
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-01/34891131.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Best bit in article:
The company has signed up 150 passengers, including physicist Stephen Hawking, former soap star Victoria Principal and designer Philippe Starck.
THERE'S a sitcom waiting to happen.
― get bent, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't wait for the first hijack movie set aboard one of these things.
"Karl Urban and his fellow unshaven radicals have taken over SpaceStarSoarEightTwo and only Vin Diesel can stop him..."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
"He's an astrophysicist, she's a failed actress...can they get along in the STRATOSPHERE?
Starring Phillipe as the 'best friend.'"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
The photograph doesn't help much, I'm afraid. "Yeah, they'll always plow into the ground at this angle..."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
(xpost) already done in 1983, "Starflight One" aka "Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land" starring Lee Majors.
― snoball, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 January 2008
http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/fda/starck/strck03.jpg
― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
"Looks like a spaceship."
Can't really think of anything snappier than that.
― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
salvage 1
― the galena free practitioner, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
so it's the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight today (as one look at Google should tell you).
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/the-meaning-of-human-spaceflight-20-essays-on-its-50th-anniversary/237132/#
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty inspiring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8PlzDgFQMM
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-eyes-crew-deep-sleep-option-for-mission-to-mars-141003.htm
http://www.collativelearning.com/PICS%20FOR%20WEBSITE/stills%206/mummified.jpg
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 October 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
Reports that a Virgin Galactic test flight has exploded.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 31 October 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
Not human travel, but this seems like the first small step to some bigger, really dumb things: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/26/space-graffiti-astronomers-angry-over-launch-of-fake-star-into-sky
― rob, Friday, 26 January 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link