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 Post subject: Re: Inside(?) Virgin Galactic
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In 2004 this technology was the cutting edge and may well have been the fastest, safest, and easiest way to get a handful of people above the Kármán Line and back, but it has taken too long. They now have relatively primitive and unproven equipment competing against two companies who have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to fly safely, in the case of SpaceX, all the way to orbit. In that light, VG’s (manually flown‽‽) spaceplane looks more and more risky and less likely to ever go into service.

I’m not sure how large the customer pool is for this sort of thing right now, but with Blue Origin and SpaceX both available for rides long before VG, I’m thinking that it’s more likely to fade away than to actually fly.

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