Start saving up for your space tickets!

[El Mamerro]

^That shit is fucking crazy.

 

It seems pretty clear from the video that it's a malfunctioning rocket/missile going around in circles, but nonetheless people must've shat their pants big time when it happened.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Are you sure you're thinking of the rides that are currently available, where you don't actually leave the stratosphere-- they just fly up really high, then go into a freefall for a couple of minutes of "weightlessness"?

 

I think these dudes are talking real deal space travel though.

 

 

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2009-12-07-virgin-galactic_N.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomScienceAndSpace-TopStories+%28Tech+-+Science+and+Space+-+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

 

 

Virgin Galactic plans to operate commercial spaceflights out of a taxpayer-funded spaceport in New Mexico that is under construction. The 2 1/2 hour trips — up and down flights without circling the Earth — include about five minutes of weightlessness.

 

SpaceShipTwo will be carried aloft by White Knight Two and released at 50,000 feet. The craft's rocket engine then burns a combination of nitrous oxide and a rubber-based solid fuel to climb more than 65 miles above the Earth's surface.

 

After reaching the top of its trajectory, it will fall back into the atmosphere and glide to a landing like a normal airplane. Its descent is controlled by "feathering" its wings to maximize aerodynamic drag.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was super excited about it, until I read that part.

[troofandroomaz]

I'm 5000 miles away and I was shitting my pants. Can only imagine...it seriously looks like the fabric of space and time are ripping. I still believe in aliens, and fox mulder.

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and that spiral in the sky.. and planet x.

 

 

 

 

 

 

oh shit and this