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#1

Sir Richard set to take off from Spaceport America in 15 minutes. The only reason he's launching today is to beat Bezos. I like it.

 

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#3

Not that I know of. Strictly tourism. They're starting to taxi.

#4
4 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Virgin galactic is interesting but do they have any plans beyond tourist flights?

Well hopefully they'll offer space flights with galactic virgins at some point.

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#7
Just now, deadshank said:

Jeez the CNN coverage is horrible. 
 

The girl doing the play by play is a beating. 

Beats the dweebs narrating this NASA feed I linked.

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Just now, deadshank said:

Jeez the CNN coverage is horrible. 
 

The girl doing the play by play is a beating. 

Agree.  I miss Miles OBrien as the main space tech reporter.

#12

I think Elon can be nutty at times but he’s smart enough to stay away from the early flights. I don’t get Bezos and Branson wanting to go first for what will eventually be a forgotten flight(s). 

#14
1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I think Elon can be nutty at times but he’s smart enough to stay away from the early flights. I don’t get Bezos and Branson wanting to go first for what will eventually be a forgotten flight(s). 

Sure for who goes second…but first is a big deal. 

#15
Just now, Anastasis said:

This Colbert thing on the VG feed is a fucking beating. 

You just can’t fly into space anymore.  Seems one has to get celebrity tie-ins and achieve media friendly backing.  

#16
Just now, Nicole44 said:

Sure for who goes second…but first is a big deal. 

Ask a non-space nerd who flew the first shuttle mission?  I bet that a sizable number of NASA employees can’t name them.

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1 minute ago, deadshank said:

You just can’t fly into space anymore.  Seems one has to get celebrity tie-ins and achieve media friendly backing.  

Branson is first and foremost a marketing guy. He’s not a tech, science or even solution guy like bezos or Elon. Branson isn’t going to let this event go with more emphasis on selling the next tickets. 

#20
Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Branson is first and foremost a marketing guy. He’s not a tech, science or even solution guy like bezos or Elon. Branson isn’t going to let this event go with more emphasis on selling the next tickets. 

Fair enough 

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#21
1 minute ago, deadshank said:

Things are looking up on CNN with Kristin Fisher on the scene.  

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Strong Rebecca Creskoff vibe

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#24

Cool video letter from Branson to his Mom.

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Kristin Fisher's parents were astronauts.  Pretty cool.  She is smoke.

Something, something, pulling G's. There's a joke in the somewhere.

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#33
7 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

CNN can be such a fucking downer sometimes…

I don’t know, I think it’s fair for them to offer criticism that the media is kept an arms distance away from the private space race unlike how they were brought into NASA. Now perhaps these companies don’t like the ongoing coverage but then they can’t have it their way when they want free rah rah coverage to sell tickets.

#40
1 minute ago, RPM said:

Somebody shoot this bitch on CNN

Agree. If cnn can’t get a non-delayed visual feed, you gotta stop the live commentary. 

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#44
Just now, used2b said:

This seems very...underwhelming.

Are you not entertained?

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#45

Cool event but VG did a bad job of shutting CNN out of closer-to-live coverage.  I have to assume that isn’t a technical glitch but by design.

#50

Why no video feed from the pilots’ POV?   

Kinda got tired of the constant close up of Branson’s jacked up Brit chiclets. 

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