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Virgin Galactic - The First Ten Years (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
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Virgin Galactic - The First Ten Years (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Series: Springer Praxis Books
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Thirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and
asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash
entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of
air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents,
employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014, was predicting that his
spaceship company - Virgin Galactic - would soon open the space
frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists
and space tourists. With more than 600 seats sold at $250,000 each,
what started off as a dream to send people just for the excitement
to look back and marvel at Earth, was on the cusp of finally being
turned into a business. Then, on October 21, 2014, tragedy struck.
SpaceShipTwo was on its most ambitious test flight to date. Seconds
after firing its engine, Virgin Galactic's spaceship was breaking
through the sound barrier. In just the three seconds that it took
for the vehicle to climb from Mach 0.94 to Mach 1.02, co-pilot Mike
Alsbury made what many close to the event believe was a fatal
mistake that led to his death and the disintegration of
SpaceShipTwo. Miraculously, the pilot, Peter Siebold, survived the
16-km fall back to Earth. Soon after the event Branson vowed to
continue his space tourism venture in spite of this. Already a
second SpaceShipTwo is being built, and ticket-holders eagerly
await the day when Virgin Galactic offers quick, routine and
affordable access to the edge of space. This book explains the
hurdles Virgin Galactic had and still has to overcome en route to
developing suborbital space travel as a profitable economic entity,
and describes the missions that will be flown on board SpaceShipTwo
Mk II, including high-altitude science studies, astronomy, life
sciences, and microgravity physics.
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