Rolling space travel thread

The photograph doesn't help much, I'm afraid. "Yeah, they'll always plow into the ground at this angle..."

(xpost) already done in 1983, "Starflight One" aka "Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land" starring Lee Majors.

Best bit in article:

The company has signed up 150 passengers, including physicist Stephen Hawking, former soap star Victoria Principal and designer Philippe Starck.

-- Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 January 2008

http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/fda/starck/strck03.jpg

"Looks like a spaceship."

Can't really think of anything snappier than that.

salvage 1

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/#

pretty inspiring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8PlzDgFQMM

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

Reports that a Virgin Galactic test flight has exploded.

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