@@Tzalaf5731 Judging by what the narrator said at 12:59, as well as the data at upper-right, the mission was using Sea Level, which she at that time adjusted to AGL with a 4600' runway altitude. So, figuring in the difference, the flight just barely made it above the tree-tops.
Congrats! no lives lost, but for such a short time - is this really much better that the commercial craft ride that Stephen-Hawkins went on? Big big bash of PR but little time. I'll wait For Falcon 9 & see what Bezos weightless time amounts to...
You’re really impressed by this trash? They literally can’t get out of this firmament. They want us to think they can get out here in a airplane..... negative. They are liars
I didn't see the reentry section of video because during the reentry, the plasma should built up around the plane. Lastly, How many time did they orbit around the globe???
No orbital speed ->no plasma. Thats why painting of that AIRPLANE didn't be changed in color. Bezos in July will really reachs to space, above 100 (if same last time, it shall be 125km). But no orbital speed (because fly mostly vertically), no plasma, no heat shield
They did not orbit the globe. They only reached low orbit altitude before falling back down. Orbit requires much higher speeds. Higher speeds cause atmospheric drag during re-entry. Unity 22 was not traveling fast enough to require a heat shield during re-entry.
I remember watching the Apollo liftoffs and missions. You could hear in ground controls voices how intense those moments were. This...Almost sounds like a segment you'd see on "Entertainment Tonight"...🙄
Why did she welcome Unity 2 to Space at about 268,000 ft, when from what I have been taught Space starts at the Karman Line which is at 100 Km or about 328,083 ft?
I am so happy for this beautiful achievement by Virgin! Congratulations to Richard and the whole team! A dream come true! See that it's not just anyone who puts their skin in the game to demonstrate how safe and wonderful this new world is that they are inaugurating right now. Very happy to see Richard remembering God all the time. Oh my God! ...remembering how wonderful the creator is to offer us so much and so beautiful things!
Meanwhile several hundred thousand children go to bed hungry while Ricky boy flies high and we all feed our dogs like kings. What a flubbed up race we have become.
@@stopthebullshit404 Sir with all due respect kids will always go to bed without food. Because our world is made in such a vaccum where greed has taken over humanity. So regarless which era we will live, lived its going to be like this.
Hint Hint, OuterSpace all fake. just because they say it doesn't make it real. you seen with your own eyes. A rocket plane go up. The engine turned off, Plane came Down. No weightlessness. Why does the video cut out? space x too, video never works. All Fake...
There is no internationally agreed on definition. 80 km is a more scientifically accurate one anyways. Karamen line calculations were only estimates and heavily rounded. Later revised by JPL for accuracy.
@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 "There is no internationally agreed on definition." Yes there is. The only people/country who do not agree with the INTERNATIONALLY accepted altitude of 100 km is the United States.
@@phillipzx3754 There isn't any international agreement, and 100 km is not scientific, nor a good practical definition. Karamen was a founding member of JPL in the US. JPL further revised Karamen's estimates and removed the rounding errors. That's where 82 km came from. All that happened in the US. It's not like the US adopted some other standard, they set all of them. Some countries just never updated to the more accurate revision.
If I were to pay that kind of money for a ride, I'd pick the ride that got me above all recognized edges of space, so that there was no question whatsoever.
I think the the coolest thing of this flight was that it was piloted by humans all the way up and down... Adventure wise, I think the VG flight is much more exciting compared to BO's New Shepard flight... The experience for the astro-tourists will definitely be different between these 2 vehicles... Congratulations!
Meanwhile several hundred thousand children go to bed hungry while Ricky boy flies high and we all feed our dogs like kings. What a flubbed up race we have become.
The X-15 did this in 1959, being air-dropped, rocket-powering to space, then reentering and landing. I'll save you from the arithmetic: sixty-two years ago.
It is, still if it is the necessary evil to accomplish more up there ... What makes me uncertain are possible impacts on our environment. I guess that only will be solved if we get space elevators at some point, which only would be feasable with carbon nanotube cables. Sadly sofar we don't have those:(
Heard the sonic boom of its reentry at home in Las Cruces New Mexico USA. Our Dona Ana County tax dollars funded Space Port America and the road to it.
@@imbwildrd3693 A spacecraft? How do you figure that? it doesn't even go to outer space. 😄 Starship will make it to the Moon, Mars, land and take off again.
Maybe a hypersonic space plane - but this craft will never do it, the only existing or having existed space plane was the space shuttle which had true orbital capability. So I look at this as just a very expensive joy ride with no practical applications except maybe to fleece millionaires of some of their cash
@@ARlELATOM U2 went more like 70,000 ft give or take, 50k is not much more than a commercial airliner so if a U2 only flew to 50 then many more would have been easily ahit diwn. Hell, the SR-71/A12 i bekievw git to 100k
Buy your ticket so you can see it for yourself then, majority of the flat earthers gave up after seeing this and Jeff's flights to suborbital space, sorry pal, it's a sphere not flat. You honestly think 2 of the top billionaires used anything but the best top of the line cameras to show this? Your little fun fantasy is over
Ok. I'm somewhat impressed. Well not really. They only went up to 53 miles. That's not really a parking orbit, nor a low earth orbit. We can't call it a suborbital flight. It didn't even reach the Karman line, which is the edge of space. If you want to start taking paying customers on a trip to space, let's go to space, not just up a few miles up.
I somewhat agree. It is similar to those nasa parabolic planes that fly in crazy parabolas to simulate microgravity, except it goes higher and the parabola is far less intense, hence the length. In my layman's understanding of the term "suborbital flight", i am not aware if there is a dictionary definition that dictates a need to make it past the karman line, so I would say they can call it suborbital flight , but again, i am just a guy applying my cursory understanding of a term that i know has a definition that I am unaware of. I will admit, the release from the launch vehicle was pretty cool. My take on paying customers is that if they make it somewhat reasonable in price, like a few times that of an airplane ticket, it's acceptable. Id pay 2 or 3 grand to go feel a few minutes of microgravity. They can charge the famous people who crap out money arms and legs to recoup costs and then bring prices to where regular humans with jobs can experience it. In that case, id say its a good thing. But lets be real, that's unlikely. They'll be charging 2/3 what itd cost to send a backpack to the ISS more likely than not xD either way, it was impressive in its own right. Doesnt hold a candle to the sun in comparison to what Space X has been doing, but neither does blue origin. My understanding is that Boeing's starliner is the only closeish competition and they need to catch a lift on a ULA rocket, so they're still far outmatched. That said, even what virgin and blue origin are doing can have a place and if someone actually decides that everyday people deserve to experience the closest thing to going into actual space, and make it doable without bankrupting people for a 4 minute float, they would make much more sense in my book. I wont go so far as to say its not impressive, because it was a spectacle, but i wouldnt go so far as to claim that these vehicles are going to revolutionize space flight when they're barely even achieving space flight in the conventional sense.
@@quazar5017 I have to take exception to your analogy of reaching orbit in a vacuum on earth. Orbits are essentially roadways in space. So, thus, you need speed and HEIGHTH. This explains the Karman Line. I didn't create it, people much smarter than me did. Alan Shepard made a suborbital flight because he didn't have the thrust powerful enough to get him there and to maintain orbit, which is 17,500 mph That speed in an vacuum chamber would create too much friction, so thus, you could not achieve an orbit there. That's my uneducated mind at work.
this is great ...but can the virgin also fly to the moon ?, or is it just for fun being few minutes in space? Besides that i think it s more a better way for take off and landings instead of a crash in small capsule going with 50km splash in the ocean
Objects enter the atmosphere at orbital velocity or even faster. This airplane came back to the airport from boundary of space, but at zero speed in vertical and "ground speed" less than 900kmh (operation speed of any plane). Then it enter the atmosphere (somewhere 0-40km) at Mach2 (less than F9 of Elon return to landing zone)
The Kármán line is named after Theodore von Kármán (1881-1963), a Hungarian American engineer and physicist who was active in aeronautics and astronautics. He was the first person to determine the altitude at which the atmosphere becomes too thin to support aeronautical flight, which Kármán calculated as 83.8 km (52.1 miles) (275088 feet)
@@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.- I'd expect to cross all recognized thresholds to space if I paid good money to go "into space". I would not accept a flight that left it in doubt in any way.
I like what they're doing, despite the fact that this is just a rich man's toy with no real future for this type of design. As soon as Starship becomes operational, and we can take a Starship to fly between continents, there will be no more market for this little amusement ride. As Starship will fly much higher into space for the Earth to Earth travel for a much lower price. I'm predicting this to happen between now and 15 years max. The commentator in this video was really good because the video feed was horrible! They had better connection from the moon landing in 1969 than they did on this (not quite all the way) trip to space.
The technology and infrastructure needs to be developed before 'real work' can be done. That's what's happening here. It's an incredible achievement. SpaceX is just further along the development curve.
@@hayaglamazonluxe Elon is happy because it gives more focus to what he is achieving and trying to achieve with his FBR ( fricken big rocket ). The others are not even in the same area as SpaceX
Yes but they all have the arrogant damage to our upper atmosphere in common. Let celebrate and join the room to win for the few, at the expense to all.
Do they have an engine while landing ? I don't think so. it's like gliding or the other ways is, landing commercial flight without engine. it's very difficult for maneuvering without engine. I am not pilot but common man know few things.
Yes and you will need SpaceX to loft that hotel into orbit as surely this craft can't achieve orbit and if it did it probably would burn up on re-entry slowing from mach 3 is nothing compared to slowing from mach 25
The US military and FAA have a lower altitude than the Karman Line to be considered going into space. Unity did make that lower altitude threshold but didn't quite make it to the KL.
@@joannasarcamedes8191 Why would you expect to see 'whole earth shots', when the maximum height the craft got to was only 53 miles? In fact, there is debate whether this was even a flight to space, when 'space' officially starts at a height of 62 miles (the Karman line).
It is heartwarming that human spaceflight is possible again and this time to tourists. The most anticipated is the Inspiration 4 mission when tourists will get to Low earth orbit in September this year by SpaceX.
@@sailorman8668 well, your profile image... is photoshopped. The famous "blue marble" image (not a photo) is photoshopped. How about that? That intrigue you? Because if it doesn't you aren't being intellectually honest with yourself. Jesuit george lamonte (probably SPELLing it wrong). Natural laws, gas laws, fluid statics... they all debunk the heliocentric model. The heliocentric model is just a belief based on zero empiricism of course and very much defies natural law. What we KNOW to be true (through the scientific method) of course. The only real science is done through the scientific method. Everything else is psuedo science by definition. Just because you make up words and definitions for them (mass for example) and throw them in equations based on begging the question fallacies.... does not mean any of it is based on emperical reality. Turns out. Now, before you write your knee jerk emotional reaction to what I have just typed out... don't bother. If you're just going to mimic the mainstream psuedo science non emperical bs, don't bother. And no I am not a "flat earther".
@@Optionvideo209 Actually, the original 'Blue Marble' photograph of the earth (my profile image) was NOT photoshopped at all, and is an actual picture of the earth from space, as taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - how about that? That intrigue you? Here's a link to some specific information about this particular photograph - sorry to burst your 'photoshop' bubble. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble Just a question - what causes the sun to 'move' in the sky, in your opinion? Is it not because the earth is rotating?
While Branson was putting together a carnival ride so he could "experience space", Musk restored America's capability of providing its own astronauts transport to and from the International Space Station. It was very gracious of Musk to congratulate Branson and Virgin "Galactic", but this accomplishment was right up there with your five-year-old riding a bike for the first time.
They really can't. It takes a lot of speed to get to space. Staying in space longer would put them too far downrange to glide back to the space center unless they stayed up for almost an entire orbit. They probably don't carry the fuel for that and if they did it would raise their reentry speed a lot. (possibly beyond what the craft can handle) One other option would be to have a landing site much further east and use the carrier plane to fly the craft back to it's starting point.
@@the_omg3242 well new sheppard is better then since all it does it go vertically up. They can spend more time up in space if they want to by adding more fuel or increasing the burn time.
They need to double their budget for the video feed. Another $20 or $30 should do it.
Lol!
So how close to a cell tower do you need to be to stream HD video? Hint, the craft was 50 miles up...
@@kimchristensen2175 SpaceX figured it out, why can’t they?
@@josephhacker6508 SpaceX has signal drops too. It's a genuine challenge.
@@calliarcale agreed, can’t imagine being a technician like bro… bro….. seems hard tbh,
Just watching it detach from the mothership was so inspiring. He never let anyone take his dreams away from him. This is incredibly inspiring.
Too much Ayn Rand...
SpaceX: "that's cute"
After spaceX said "that's cute", Elon booked a ticket on the unity22 😁
@@MinhPham-vg6bw No, he didn't.
Unity 22 has already flown. Unless he has a time machine, he can't fly on it.
You know nothing about which you speak.
At about 46, 000 miles - 30,000 a nice Flat Horizon, seen with no curvature! Timestamp approx 7.50!
I caught it
Altimeter is calculating " above sea level" and the Spaceport is almost 5000 ft above that. So apogee from takeoff location is actually 278,000 ft.
Is One Certain The Altimeter Is Zeroed To ASL? Perhaps The Zero Is AGL.
@@Tzalaf5731 Judging by what the narrator said at 12:59, as well as the data at upper-right, the mission was using Sea Level, which she at that time adjusted to AGL with a 4600' runway altitude. So, figuring in the difference, the flight just barely made it above the tree-tops.
Gottem
Yes, but that is technically a space flight.
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT There's debate on where space begins
I can just hear Elon saying "fucking amateurs" 🤣
Congrats! no lives lost, but for such a short time - is this really much better that the commercial craft ride that Stephen-Hawkins went on? Big big bash of PR but little time. I'll wait For Falcon 9 & see what Bezos weightless time amounts to...
@@bitebetsy B.O. states that it was 4 minutes of weightlessness,while virgin galactic is 6 minutes
Elon bought a ticket on the unity 22😂😂😂. So much for amateur
@@MinhPham-vg6bw
Guess you don't know what real gloating is
@@203Gunner123INF whatever. When I see a tesla, I just see a ford focus with more batteries
>$250,000 per person / 15 minute ride, most of it not in space = >$16,667/minute.
Personally, I think that's a bargain. I'd do it in a heartbeat!
Branson earns about $200,000 per week so there's that...
I am saving up the $200k for that 1 way ticket to Mars via SpaceX :)
The rich people have tried everything on earth, it is just another new "exciting" toys for them.
The first few hydrogen and helium air ships killed many rich people. The first Boeing big airbus also killed many rich people. Same as Titanic ship...
That landing was *B U T T E R*
Smoooooth ;-)
Which landing❓they did several
Probably one of the most televised landings in history and they nailed every bit of it.
"Butter indeed. Left when able, Ground 121.3."
Millions put into the aircrafts yet this is the video quality you come up with
It was a PR type event...
10:53 who’s running back and forth behind the windows?
I must admit I’m impressed. Congrats to the crew
You’re really impressed by this trash? They literally can’t get out of this firmament. They want us to think they can get out here in a airplane..... negative. They are liars
So negative!
@@elnumber9509 There is no firmament dufus.
@Information Act either way it looked cool
@hm hm so much negativity. I’m just impressed that Richard Branson managed to make this happen on his own
Anyone can explain how they managed to take a top view of the airplane/mothership? Thanks
Probably has like a small go pro like camera attached to it able to withstand the air pressure in the atmosphere
Cameras, and communication was pretty shit compared to Space X. Richard has some work to do. 1 step at a time Rich you'll get there. Well done mate.
They also said in the video that its their first time prodcasting HD and i dont think it was the main focus of the event
He was using Virgin mobile....
Yes I agree SpaceX is the best, but congrats Richard.
I didn't see the reentry section of video because during the reentry, the plasma should built up around the plane. Lastly, How many time did they orbit around the globe???
No orbital speed ->no plasma. Thats why painting of that AIRPLANE didn't be changed in color.
Bezos in July will really reachs to space, above 100 (if same last time, it shall be 125km). But no orbital speed (because fly mostly vertically), no plasma, no heat shield
They did not orbit the globe. They only reached low orbit altitude before falling back down. Orbit requires much higher speeds. Higher speeds cause atmospheric drag during re-entry. Unity 22 was not traveling fast enough to require a heat shield during re-entry.
I remember watching the Apollo liftoffs and missions. You could hear in ground controls voices how intense those moments were. This...Almost sounds like a segment you'd see on "Entertainment Tonight"...🙄
The footage and audio being presented to viewers is a lot more curated now.
Can I ask you to take a closer look at the Lunar Lander & be fkn honest with yourself.
@@uppercut2246....What?
Love the Valley Girl capcom. Perfect touch.
Jim Bozo probably has an "Amazin' Robot bragging.about his up/down amusement ride...
Valley Girl?
@@carlwilson1772 Google it...(even though you've been dead for 23 years I still admire your guitar work...especially with the Wrecking Crew...)
@@LeonAllanDavis If only I had been that Carl Wilson.
Why did she welcome Unity 2 to Space at about 268,000 ft, when from what I have been taught Space starts at the Karman Line which is at 100 Km or about 328,083 ft?
Because ego inflation is a tax only the very wealthy understand
@@Samuel-gc2rm WELL SAID.
I am so happy for this beautiful achievement by Virgin! Congratulations to Richard and the whole team!
A dream come true! See that it's not just anyone who puts their skin in the game to demonstrate how safe and wonderful this new world is that they are inaugurating right now. Very happy to see Richard remembering God all the time. Oh my God! ...remembering how wonderful the creator is to offer us so much and so beautiful things!
I witnessed the great day with my cat Raja… greetings from Scotland 🏴
Meanwhile several hundred thousand children go to bed hungry while Ricky boy flies high and we all feed our dogs like kings. What a flubbed up race we have become.
@@stopthebullshit404 Sir with all due respect kids will always go to bed without food. Because our world is made in such a vaccum where greed has taken over humanity. So regarless which era we will live, lived its going to be like this.
@@stopthebullshit404 there is no solution for it
@@nishantrai2570 But there is a solution. Tax the wealthy.
@@stopthebullshit404 Poverty is caused by corrupt and inept governments, not by how rich guys like Richard Branson use their money.
did it fire properly? seems a bit short of space...
Pre-flight pilot brief:
Ok guys.
Fly it.
Land it.
Don't kill the boss.
Lol
Exactly my thought... :D
Looooooooolz, 😂
So why couldn't we actually see inside the cabin when they were in space floating around.
I did not see much space to float around.
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@@kinngrimm , thanks.
Hint Hint, OuterSpace all fake.
just because they say it doesn't make it real.
you seen with your own eyes.
A rocket plane go up. The engine turned off, Plane came Down. No weightlessness.
Why does the video cut out?
space x too, video never works.
All Fake...
Cause they didn't go to space mt friend
Only "space" in the US. They hit about 53 miles. The internationally recognized Karman line is 62 miles.
There is no internationally agreed on definition. 80 km is a more scientifically accurate one anyways. Karamen line calculations were only estimates and heavily rounded. Later revised by JPL for accuracy.
@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 "There is no internationally agreed on definition."
Yes there is. The only people/country who do not agree with the INTERNATIONALLY accepted altitude of 100 km is the United States.
Military acknowledges 50 miles. If they went to Karman line, there would be no aerodynamic control, hence the lower threshold.
@@phillipzx3754 There isn't any international agreement, and 100 km is not scientific, nor a good practical definition. Karamen was a founding member of JPL in the US. JPL further revised Karamen's estimates and removed the rounding errors. That's where 82 km came from. All that happened in the US. It's not like the US adopted some other standard, they set all of them. Some countries just never updated to the more accurate revision.
If I were to pay that kind of money for a ride, I'd pick the ride that got me above all recognized edges of space, so that there was no question whatsoever.
Is the nose gear just a skid?
wheels add weight and take more space.
It’s a stepping stone to where we ought to be. Good Job Guys 🔥🚀🚀
Yay to a stepping stone to further upper atmosphere pollution. Yay let’s celebrate the few who affect us all. Wake up you fool.
Geez... I wanted to see the interior when they launched!
Hopefully more videos will be made available.
Huston we another BS for the injection sheeple
Too bad the audio didn’t work. Everything else went off fairly good. Branson can’t wipe that smile off his face. Awesome experience
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Is the nose gear a skid?
I think the the coolest thing of this flight was that it was piloted by humans all the way up and down... Adventure wise, I think the VG flight is much more exciting compared to BO's New Shepard flight... The experience for the astro-tourists will definitely be different between these 2 vehicles... Congratulations!
Meanwhile several hundred thousand children go to bed hungry while Ricky boy flies high and we all feed our dogs like kings. What a flubbed up race we have become.
Our priorities are selfish and misguided, but hey spaceship go vroom.
Have you flown on the other one? It looks more like a tourist type space ship instead of this origami airplane.
@@stopthebullshit404 Stop having that never-ending population of kids you cannot support. Problems solved.
The X-15 did this in 1959, being air-dropped, rocket-powering to space, then reentering and landing. I'll save you from the arithmetic: sixty-two years ago.
who was the pilot?
The announcer made me realize how ridiculous space tourism is.
I couldn’t agree more, this is like some novelty dog shit. Like who would wanna pay thousands and thousands to be in space for a minute
It is, still if it is the necessary evil to accomplish more up there ...
What makes me uncertain are possible impacts on our environment.
I guess that only will be solved if we get space elevators at some point,
which only would be feasable with carbon nanotube cables.
Sadly sofar we don't have those:(
Right? Just get a ride on the vomit comet it's like 5-10k I think. Plus more weightless
@@tomlaw4269 billionaires who have zero empathy for all those who are struggling in the world
The announcer made me turn the volume down. No accent irks like a loud nasal American woman...
the nose gear isn’t a wheel? why? thx
Gratulation.!! 2214 MPH Max. Ufff that most be a ride lol
Why have you not released the video of the 5 g's of deceleration upon reentry phase?
Heard the sonic boom of its reentry at home in Las Cruces New Mexico USA. Our Dona Ana County tax dollars funded Space Port America and the road to it.
Lol I’m like 30 mins from Las Cruces
Congrats on the achievement! :D
What would happen if they put a larger engine and go further up and reach mach 5 , would they burn to ashes upon re-entry ? Just just wondering
Probably it never got to much more than 2 and never reached 3. Probably would suffer structural failure ay mach 5
And Elon says, oh how cute.
ELON MUSK not compared other person's
At least Branson's craft doesn't look like a giant flying dildo. It looks like an actual spacecraft from the 21st century.
@@imbwildrd3693 Not really!
@@imbwildrd3693 A spacecraft? How do you figure that? it doesn't even go to outer space. 😄 Starship will make it to the Moon, Mars, land and take off again.
@@imbwildrd3693 haha 😂
Congrats to all! You are an awesome space traveler!
Virgin Galactic: 282,000 Ft. Altitude, Success! We Did It!
SpaceX: 282,000 Ft. Altitude, Mission Abort, Failure.
Alan Sheppard went to 612,480 ft on the first manned rocket launch in 1962, this is nothing.
i don't know what it means 🥱 always in air not in real space 🙄
did Unity 22 orbit earth before it landed? or it just reach the space and land
@CrewPostor ... than we call it high altitude fly ship, not space ship
Don't let me leave Murph
Just for my information - is this type of space travel ever going to be more than a tourist ride ?
What other applications are planned for it ?
Maybe a hypersonic space plane - but this craft will never do it, the only existing or having existed space plane was the space shuttle which had true orbital capability. So I look at this as just a very expensive joy ride with no practical applications except maybe to fleece millionaires of some of their cash
It was a ride to the edge of space only. Much too short for that money for the ticket 🤔
You can build a better and cheaper system for space exploration, it so simple
@@GNOSTICA_IAM "Space Exploration"? Pretty sure 80 K is mapped pretty well. Balloons have been flying there for 80 years. Joy Ride, sure. That's true.
Yea I thought they gonna go up there than the U2 spy plan ...it’s seems like the U2 plane is better than this .
@@yihuda7459 The U2 plane went to about 50,000ft, this goes to almost 300,000ft! They are in different leagues!
@@ARlELATOM U2 went more like 70,000 ft give or take, 50k is not much more than a commercial airliner so if a U2 only flew to 50 then many more would have been easily ahit diwn. Hell, the SR-71/A12 i bekievw git to 100k
How about getting some cameras that work
2:04 that thing looks like a concorde from far away
this world does NOT need a song called 'new normal' thanks very much
Yes. Thanks for voicing exactly what I thought when she mentioned it.
Historical journey of Sir Richard Branson.
Congratulations.
Where did this happen
In the USA or England?
New Mexico.
OBVIOUSLY THE EARTH IS FLAT!
Buy your ticket so you can see it for yourself then, majority of the flat earthers gave up after seeing this and Jeff's flights to suborbital space, sorry pal, it's a sphere not flat. You honestly think 2 of the top billionaires used anything but the best top of the line cameras to show this? Your little fun fantasy is over
@@TheDaexiled1 Nein
Flat Earth is having a DUH moment 🤣
stupid question: why didnt the front gear have a wheel?
Like to seen more space video . Still impressive though.
Who’s taking the video?
From the ground you mean?
You do not think that tracking cameras would be able to 'take the video'?
"I'm looking down on you fellas!"
_Rochard Branson
Rochard Bronsan ?????
Congratulations to the Unity 22 crew!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR RCHARD!!!
So this was basically an updated version of a "Vomit Comet."
Wheres the footage from inside when they drop and ignite the rocket ?
Yup
What happened to 4?
Congratulations Virgin!
Well done!.. the beginning of a new era.. thanks from down under! 👍🇳🇿
The "Battle of the Billionaires", break out the popcorn people!
Who’s going to die first? I hope its jeff but i would settle for elon. Just dont let it be Richard
How many minutes did the entire Flight take ? Love from Nigeria 🇳🇬. Thank u Richard.
Ok. I'm somewhat impressed. Well not really. They only went up to 53 miles. That's not really a parking orbit, nor a low earth orbit. We can't call it a suborbital flight. It didn't even reach the Karman line, which is the edge of space. If you want to start taking paying customers on a trip to space, let's go to space, not just up a few miles up.
I somewhat agree. It is similar to those nasa parabolic planes that fly in crazy parabolas to simulate microgravity, except it goes higher and the parabola is far less intense, hence the length. In my layman's understanding of the term "suborbital flight", i am not aware if there is a dictionary definition that dictates a need to make it past the karman line, so I would say they can call it suborbital flight , but again, i am just a guy applying my cursory understanding of a term that i know has a definition that I am unaware of. I will admit, the release from the launch vehicle was pretty cool. My take on paying customers is that if they make it somewhat reasonable in price, like a few times that of an airplane ticket, it's acceptable. Id pay 2 or 3 grand to go feel a few minutes of microgravity. They can charge the famous people who crap out money arms and legs to recoup costs and then bring prices to where regular humans with jobs can experience it. In that case, id say its a good thing. But lets be real, that's unlikely. They'll be charging 2/3 what itd cost to send a backpack to the ISS more likely than not xD either way, it was impressive in its own right. Doesnt hold a candle to the sun in comparison to what Space X has been doing, but neither does blue origin. My understanding is that Boeing's starliner is the only closeish competition and they need to catch a lift on a ULA rocket, so they're still far outmatched. That said, even what virgin and blue origin are doing can have a place and if someone actually decides that everyday people deserve to experience the closest thing to going into actual space, and make it doable without bankrupting people for a 4 minute float, they would make much more sense in my book. I wont go so far as to say its not impressive, because it was a spectacle, but i wouldnt go so far as to claim that these vehicles are going to revolutionize space flight when they're barely even achieving space flight in the conventional sense.
Orbit has to do with horizontal speed and not altitude, in a vacuum tunnel you could go to orbit at ground level.
@@quazar5017 I have to take exception to your analogy of reaching orbit in a vacuum on earth. Orbits are essentially roadways in space. So, thus, you need speed and HEIGHTH. This explains the Karman Line. I didn't create it, people much smarter than me did. Alan Shepard made a suborbital flight because he didn't have the thrust powerful enough to get him there and to maintain orbit, which is 17,500 mph That speed in an vacuum chamber would create too much friction, so thus, you could not achieve an orbit there. That's my uneducated mind at work.
I agree .62 miles equals 327360 ft. That is edge of space.
did not understand who was steering the wheel?
Meanwhile the Navy says they seen another UFO
Bygum those commercials work though. Audio? Video?
FanTASTic!!! 🙌 congratulations!🎊
this is great ...but can the virgin also fly to the moon ?, or is it just for fun being few minutes in space? Besides that i think it s more a better way for take off and landings instead of a crash in small capsule going with 50km splash in the ocean
6:30 nobody seems excited, LOL ... probably all trying to keep from barfing.
@anonymous one There was weightlessness for just a few minutes. The video here showed a sliver of that time.
They were probably thinking about getting refunds for the "tickets."
If they wherein space, why did the ship not heat up on reentry?
Objects enter the atmosphere at orbital velocity or even faster. This airplane came back to the airport from boundary of space, but at zero speed in vertical and "ground speed" less than 900kmh (operation speed of any plane). Then it enter the atmosphere (somewhere 0-40km) at Mach2 (less than F9 of Elon return to landing zone)
Congratulations Richard. Few live their dreams.
Y'all, they already tested this 10years back. This is just demonstration that they are now ready to take customers.
We still need warp capability before the Vulcans make first contact.
Without ion propulsion drives, and an anti gravity metric system for artificial gravity, I don't think we're quite ready yet
love how it does the inverted flip to see the earth. amazing. so many of us want to fly it ty Sir Richard. Space coast
If they don't cross the Karman Line then they did NOT get to space!
Space is a point of view, Anakin.
The Kármán line is named after Theodore von Kármán (1881-1963), a Hungarian American engineer and physicist who was active in aeronautics and astronautics. He was the first person to determine the altitude at which the atmosphere becomes too thin to support aeronautical flight, which Kármán calculated as 83.8 km (52.1 miles) (275088 feet)
NASA and the USAF define the edge of space to be at 50 miles (80 km).
@@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.- well I am much more of an authority on this than they are.
@@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.- I'd expect to cross all recognized thresholds to space if I paid good money to go "into space". I would not accept a flight that left it in doubt in any way.
Kudos. Ship looks great, I'll let you borrow my drone's camera for the next one.
I like what they're doing, despite the fact that this is just a rich man's toy with no real future for this type of design. As soon as Starship becomes operational, and we can take a Starship to fly between continents, there will be no more market for this little amusement ride. As Starship will fly much higher into space for the Earth to Earth travel for a much lower price. I'm predicting this to happen between now and 15 years max. The commentator in this video was really good because the video feed was horrible! They had better connection from the moon landing in 1969 than they did on this (not quite all the way) trip to space.
Simply fantastic. Congratulations!
Was he really in space?..no....if some one not crossed Earth weather layer ... He is not in space...
Was it as delightful as Esptein Island?
branson and bezos are doing glorified amusement park rides, while spacex is doing real work. looks like fun though.
The technology and infrastructure needs to be developed before 'real work' can be done. That's what's happening here. It's an incredible achievement. SpaceX is just further along the development curve.
There is room for everyone to win. Elon is happy for Branson, be happy for him too.
@@hayaglamazonluxe Elon is happy because it gives more focus to what he is achieving and trying to achieve with his FBR ( fricken big rocket ). The others are not even in the same area as SpaceX
Yes but they all have the arrogant damage to our upper atmosphere in common. Let celebrate and join the room to win for the few, at the expense to all.
Do they have an engine while landing ? I don't think so. it's like gliding or the other ways is, landing commercial flight without engine. it's very difficult for maneuvering without engine. I am not pilot but common man know few things.
In addition...ten years from here you will be able to dock to a hotel for the week orbiting earth! You just wait and see!
Yes and you will need SpaceX to loft that hotel into orbit as surely this craft can't achieve orbit and if it did it probably would burn up on re-entry slowing from mach 3 is nothing compared to slowing from mach 25
A GREAT achievement! Well done!
He didn't even go in space that's like me saying I'm going to Europe get close enough in a plane to see it and turn around
The US military and FAA have a lower altitude than the Karman Line to be considered going into space. Unity did make that lower altitude threshold but didn't quite make it to the KL.
Yes, it is like crossing a border to another country (or a continent) and stepping right back
If I'm paying that kind of money, I expect to cross the Karman Line, so there is no doubt and no argument.
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awsome...so where are the images of earth???
They can be seen all throughout the video - did you not notice them? LOL.
@@sailorman8668 i seen some partial images but no whole earth shots...
@@joannasarcamedes8191 Why would you expect to see 'whole earth shots', when the maximum height the craft got to was only 53 miles?
In fact, there is debate whether this was even a flight to space, when 'space' officially starts at a height of 62 miles (the Karman line).
Quinjet from Agents Of SHIELD
It is heartwarming that human spaceflight is possible again and this time to tourists.
The most anticipated is the Inspiration 4 mission when tourists will get to Low earth orbit in September this year by SpaceX.
Well Done!
And the people fall for it. Little bit of research goes a long way fellas 👍
Note that binging on stupidity based YT videos is not "research".
What is the 'it' you're referring to CMDR?
And with regards to 'research', what would be 'revealed' if we did some?
@@sailorman8668 well, your profile image... is photoshopped. The famous "blue marble" image (not a photo) is photoshopped. How about that? That intrigue you? Because if it doesn't you aren't being intellectually honest with yourself. Jesuit george lamonte (probably SPELLing it wrong). Natural laws, gas laws, fluid statics... they all debunk the heliocentric model. The heliocentric model is just a belief based on zero empiricism of course and very much defies natural law. What we KNOW to be true (through the scientific method) of course. The only real science is done through the scientific method. Everything else is psuedo science by definition. Just because you make up words and definitions for them (mass for example) and throw them in equations based on begging the question fallacies.... does not mean any of it is based on emperical reality. Turns out.
Now, before you write your knee jerk emotional reaction to what I have just typed out... don't bother. If you're just going to mimic the mainstream psuedo science non emperical bs, don't bother. And no I am not a "flat earther".
@@Optionvideo209 Actually, the original 'Blue Marble' photograph of the earth (my profile image) was NOT photoshopped at all, and is an actual picture of the earth from space, as taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - how about that? That intrigue you?
Here's a link to some specific information about this particular photograph - sorry to burst your 'photoshop' bubble.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble
Just a question - what causes the sun to 'move' in the sky, in your opinion? Is it not because the earth is rotating?
@@sailorman8668 you're in for a surprise 👍 The sun and moon look like they're moving because they're moving 👊 sounds profound I know.
Branson: Virgin Galactic Goes To Space!
Musk: (yawn) You Think You Did What Now?
Well, Branson actually went to space
The two of them are friends, and have congratulated each other on their respective successful major flights.
While Branson was putting together a carnival ride so he could "experience space", Musk restored America's capability of providing its own astronauts transport to and from the International Space Station. It was very gracious of Musk to congratulate Branson and Virgin "Galactic", but this accomplishment was right up there with your five-year-old riding a bike for the first time.
Elon bought a ticket on virgin galactic. That's how funny your comment is😂😂😂
@@GNOSTICA_IAM No, he didn't. He took a high-altitude airplane ride.
Yo ya adquiri mi ticket para el proximo vuelo, partimos en 30 dias, estoy muy emocionado!!!!!
they didn't even leave the atmosphere... how you call that "space"
Earths atmosphere has been detected as far out as Mars.
A great achievement! Well done.
Congratulations!
I wish, I want to go one day 😪😪😔😗😗
A great moment for mankind 👏👏👏
Definitely need to give SpaceX a call and see how there able to have such a better livestream and audio quality.
One thing they need to do is increase the duration being in space. It's too short
Because it's not actually going to space.. It's just falling with style
@@Samuel-gc2rm well everything in space is falling, but I mean increase the time of falling by increasing height or range
@@Samuel-gc2rm Agreed, it's a glorified Vomit Comet. Less room, less zero G, more money.
They really can't. It takes a lot of speed to get to space. Staying in space longer would put them too far downrange to glide back to the space center unless they stayed up for almost an entire orbit. They probably don't carry the fuel for that and if they did it would raise their reentry speed a lot. (possibly beyond what the craft can handle)
One other option would be to have a landing site much further east and use the carrier plane to fly the craft back to it's starting point.
@@the_omg3242 well new sheppard is better then since all it does it go vertically up. They can spend more time up in space if they want to by adding more fuel or increasing the burn time.
Congratulations!!!! Awesome… what a great day.
Awesome ride and return congratulations Richard Branson. ❤️
Wow the altitude on screen was way off!