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Watch: Virgin Galactic launches first all-civilian spaceflight
that old man made me happy. He paid for that in 2005! Glad he got to do it during his life. Amazing.
He's probably glad he's still physically able to go. That payment was a long time ago.
certainly an amazing life lesson to our younger instant gratification generation - the longer you anticipate something the more you enjoy it.
@@ghary2005 alternatively, the longer you anticipate something the more likely it is you die before doing it
Yup.....glad he lived to experience one of his dreams
he has been the first on that waiting list and he was his chance back then sooo glad hes finally going 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
the fact that this was without incident is something not to be taken for granted
As long as diversity isn't used as a way of hiring you won't have any problem.
It’s all fun and games until the thrusters malfunction, then its just a 💣! What’s that old time saying? …curiosity killed the 🐈⬛.
Yeah just like the sub that killed those other millionaires. It will happen with this also.
@@whitee2069 yea because fatal accidents only happen to wealthy people. Some really stupid comments on here in the name of free speech
How can the earth handle all these rockets ???? This dose not look green at all ????
I love that she said 'They are officially astronauts' after the lady who is an astronaut was so peeved about them getting that title.
the fact theyre using air breaks where there is basically no air pressure requires insane skill and accuracy. props to those pilots.
heh heh! ;)
Air brakes, it's a block of wood causing friction underneath 😂
Just like a kite flows in the wind
They are space tourists. Calling them astronauts discredits the true pioneers who invested considerable time, effort and money on their education, training and research to make what happened today possible. Congratulations on a successful flight.
AstroNots.
Agreed
Pretty sure the correct term is terrestrially challenged.
Astrotourists
Not even that, accelerate to 17,500 MPH and get into orbit before before you tell me you're going into space. They may be going only a little faster and higher than the Concord did. If you want to get weightless, go on the vomit comet.
It's great that Richard Branson can see all this happen as the creator.
Because he's such a good person and the existence of billionaires in this world is totally not sickening?
@@userI3I2right...?
@@userI3I2 i get ur point but say u hit the lottery tomorrow for 1.2B u giving it up?
yeaaa, especially Jews...@@userI3I2
For more than 20 years we have been vaiting for this Frog to go into the stratosphere and become a Prince.
As amazing as the space flight itself, the fact we can stream all these over the internet would be unthinkable a decade ago.
Why could've done this back in 2013.
We live streamed the “moon landing” lol
nah not that low-fi crap.
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They call people crazy just thinking of something like that back in those days.
I'm glad I got to see this in my lifetime. This means so little to so many people, which is a mistake. You're looking at the future for us all right now. One day, this will become as common place as taking a bus to work.
I hope not! Wasting fossil fuel for 10 minutes of fun? The CO2 emission per capita is as high as a flight from London to New York.
That’s what I’m saying how is nobody talking about this more
Kudos to the pilot for such beautiful landing!!!
Remind me what a Kudo is.... Where are the days we used a real sentence with words expressing our personal feelings instead of 1 general word. Like the Pilot needs Kudos from someone that has zero knowledge of what any Pilot does.......
@buddhabeach9666 let me take a wild guess and say you don’t have many friends.
@@heiltecn9ne Im agree with him, and he is my firend (and you to, if you want ;).
@@buddhabeach9666 ku·dos /ˈko͞oˌdōs/ noun praise and honor received for an achievement.
@@heiltecn9neyour comment is exemplary of the shallow, consumerist culture plaguing modern society.
Its called Zero G falling.. I used to do it for my passengers in a Cessna 172. Works in all planes, but only for a few seconds.
32:00 That shot is so cool... Looking at it floating in space from the ground..
Wym by floating?
Branson is a legend. A great visionary.
I am glad it went well and they are safe. A wonderful step.
I was hoping it would blow up 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yup we don't want another submarine incident. I'm sure they weren't using cheap knockoff controllers.
Why Richard didn't join them
I see no benefit in this. The richest 5 % of all humans create 80 % of all co2. That's just another nail in the coffin of our environment.
@@waterdropsofprozac450 Jesus Christ!!!
I agree. They are space tourist. Not astronauts.
doesnt matter who you are, if you see our planet from space.. Nothing will ever be more beautiful. you'll never gaze upon anything close to earths beauty from space. the peak of beauty in your lifetime is reached from that point forward.
They better thank the test pilot who orginally helped with the design of the Galactic through his very many and dangerous test flights. Because during one of the test flights he was involved in a crash landing that could have cost him his life just to help the design make it to where it is today.
We go from serious journalists covering the Apollo program to now our modern 9th grade level coverage of this very serious and awe-inspiring flight. It is almost better to turn the sound off entirely rather than to hear all of the silly babble. Congratulations to those pilots for an amazing flight.
Absolutely, a sign of the times, not to mention the strategically placed crew.
Glad I'm not alone. I was like SHUT UP ALREADY! I never want to see Gadi Schwarz ever again.
who wants to cut an elevator cable to experience weightlessness? like what am i hearing?
They were talking quite a bit maybe just crew talk and some background music when they got to space would have been better
its not so serious, calm down
Thumbs up for the Landing Crew. They did a Wonderful job on this flight. They have the perfect person being he has done this multiple times in his life! I love this video!!
I'm glad they're safe. I saw a parent/child combo and though about the last exploration adventure.
26:30 is where you want to start if you wanna see the spaceship separation
19:21 The equivalent of "You are not flying , you are just falling with style" 😂😂
brought tears to my eyes thinking about how they're experiencing this
I'm pretty sure I'd just be staring out the window silently with some tears coming down my face. I vote we call them Atmosnauts.
Was lucky enough to to see Richard Brandon’s flight across the earth pass through Kansas when i was in High School seems like 10 years ago got to respect the limits that man is pushing
It's quite an achievement to come back safely down to earth in one piece, even if it's not actually going into actual space, per se. Its the ultimate and most expensive, fairground ride with a lot more serious risk of loss of life, attached to it!!
Add 1 more to the Jealous list
Just like the home made subs...
@@jamesg8203 ok dumba$$ that can only vomit a 2 word phrase that every other millenial has grown tired of.
@@ultimatedouchebag6760FAA regulated, just like the sub you fly with on vacation.
Don't need another ocean gate incident
At first I was wondering what all the hype was about. But, when I saw them experiencing free falling and peering through the windows I definitely got chills. Must be a life altering moment for anyone.
Allah (the God) who made everything in the first place and this life is temporary and a test not eternal like the next one
no one asked@@Bits-Lab
also naive of you to think there is only one@@Bits-Lab
You mean you didn't understand that they were going up to space at first? That's crazy.
@@Bits-Labno.
I met Branson when he was a spotty, toothy kid with an upstairs record shop in Oxford Street. I could never, ever imagined I would live to see that guy do this !
What's going on at 32:43-32:46? Would like an explanation for that anomoly, vertical and horizontal lines from center screen to the right side.
Wow finally. I remember reading about this being their goal back in the 2000s
Congratulations! When I was young they were just some months away from that launch. Now, 20 years later, it has really happend.
Very cool. Hope the do some heavy screening before allowing people onboard since so many people have been going nuts on even regular plane flights lately.
I've been following richard for the last 15 years of my life and it's amazing to see this finally come together.
I remember him trying to fly around the world in a balloon, when I was a kid. 🤔
Maybe just refer them as Space Passengers? If I fly on a plane and walk around for a moment, I don't call myself a Pilot. 😊
Just high alt passengers, they never made it to space.
The super rich tour the stars while the masses struggle to eat and house themselves. Humanity is a something else…
Equality doesn't mean equal outcomes
bro, waited 18 years to visit space applause from Chicago. You have to be the most patient man I’ve ever seen.🎉
that's exactly what the planet is needing right now! branson has shown how much he cares with his cruise ships. now he'll bring it to space. what a time to be alive
Good god…. Let’s go back to the Stone Age…
Perhaps a good name for the passengers traveling with the professionals to space could be “Astrotourists”.
Congratulations to everyone involved and especially the old gentleman who definitely deserved his flight to space after working so hard and waiting for so long! Nothing more beautifu than meritocracy. Congratulations sir ❤
I echo this sentiment, although i don't begrudge the two ladies of their opportunity. You win a contest then that's fair enough too. But yes, it is nice to see somebody really enjoy themselves after they've spent their hard earned money on a dream and have waited so long to realise that dream.
@@blakefish80agreed, very well said
This is such an Ameriweeb comment about meritocracy lol.
@@msgesus4518 hahaha
Talking about meritocracy when looking at a billionaire's toy project is a genuinely laughable sentiment
It was successful because it was built by certified engineers and not built in a shed....with a Logitech controller. Great job!
This is the marvel of science and engineering combined. What a accomplishment
I love listening to 3 different broadcasts simultaneously.
True, ill be hearing voices in my head after this 😳
lololololol@@shigoXIII
This is awesome, what a change in perspective when you get to see earth and all it’s pressures, life, problems, deaths, struggles, food/shelter challenges, work challenges, I bet it makes all those feelings seem very very small, and on earth those feelings are so big.
They can still die up there you know lol
probably the most stupid comment ever made about an useless event.
We are all in Transit and Earth is just temporary... its the final destination that matters and we need to think about.
Plot twist: Earth is THE HEAVEN. Literally.
Good luck ! ..
Richard has always been my idol as I learned a lot from him on how to be a leader and how to take care of the business
This is definitely the way Forward compared to a rocket. Watching that was surreal.
A big achievement. It might seems little but it is a good start for the coming generation.
My thoughts
No. It's not a start of nothing big. Technology is still too poor to make this anywhere near economical for larger consumption.
@@brokula1312and how do you know? How about you stop making up stuff
@@Gamble333How do I know. Well pay yourself a trip to space ticket.
This is one of the most interesting videos I have ever seen in my life. Man, I was glued to the screen for the entire time. So fascinating. Space tourism is the future!
yep they want to space just like you think you know history by watching netflix
He pay that much money for that trip and look at the floor or the ceiling?
@@flakakelflakakel7266 , ironically says the person with a street drug as their username...let me guess, you were under the influence of that drug as you made your cancerous tumor of a post?
I have to say, commentator loved talking, I think I heard him more than anyone
Can say nothing but wow!
I think people who pay to acquire a seat in a vehicle travelling into space shouldn't be called Astranauts, that's likening them to professional pilots of spacecraft. Rather I think they could be called Astro-passengers.
Like phd recipients being called doctors
Astro-nots.
😂 😂
uuuh, Space tourists
"People who get doctorates shouldn't be called doctors, that's likening them to people who work in medicine." It's always been the case that the word astronaut is applied to a human who goes to space. The initial astro and cosmo nauts were everything from dogs to air force vets who had _nothing_ to do with the construction of the spacecraft.
Richard Branson.... you are the man... love your cruise line, airline and would love to experience this OMG!!!!!
But not Brexit
Astronaut is a skilled position. These people are space travelers.
Alguém viu o buraco no estabilizador direito, parte de cima do video, aos 42:24. Lado esquerdo também está com remendo. Has anyone seen the hole in the right gimbal at the top of the video at 42:24. The left side is also patched.
She is so pressed about them being called astronauts that’s so funny to me
I wake up every morning and pop on the news for a half hour before work. Saw plenty of weather reports and murders, but had no idea we did this! Very cool!
As fun as this sounds i like my feet on the ground 😂 is already scary enough being on a plane and experience turbulence.
That is amazing experience
An incredible experience, and a glimpse of things to come!
I find it amazing that its taken so long to come up with this design, when Thunderbirds and UFO were using them in the 80s
you mean the 60's and early 70's
I do indeed!@@greatunz67
Steven Greer says the deep state already developed super-luminary space travel in the secret space program decades ago, along with anti- gravity and zero-point energy tech. Richard/Elon/Jeff are likely going to figure this out soon and roll it out as the results of their own entrepreneurship
Oh That is amazing. just wondering myself up in this spaceship.
And there are still people who think we landed 12 men on the moon 50 years ago 😂
Yes, we did. It is amazing that there are still people who claim that it didn't happen. And I don't see the connection to this.
@sebastiannolte1201 The connection is, 50 years on and we're still getting excited about this? 50 years after Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 33 hours, we were flying multiple people across in 3 hours. Now that's how we progress after we've actually done something and not faked it for political propaganda. Wake up.
So exciting to see my fellow Antiguans apart of such an rare experience. Congratulations to the tourists.
Gives me memories of the titanic submarine just the opposite direction
FAA regulated, just like the sub you fly on vacation.
🏆
Darwinists exist bro. They seek that one thrill that could possibly send them to Valhalla lol
Eu tive o privilegio de assitir ao homem pisar na lua e agora de ver a conquista do espaço por pessoas comuns.
Seen and heard of this before. Just different this time. It's in the air.
I hope it all goes well
Very cool. Way cooler than trying to see the wreckage of the titanic. Crazy how we know more about space than our deep oceans, even travelling to space can be easier than deep oceans.
Ironically, a lot of what works in space travel also works in oceanic travel, as the pressure of outer space can also be likened to an ocean itself. Why else do you think that NASA and other space flight organizations train in water, alongside zero gravity environments?
@@paxhumana2015kinda makes the whole space is under the ocean theory more believable
on the surface, I don't see a single thing worth complaining about, *this* is great
Emperor Palpatine commends Richard Branson "DARTH VICIOUS"
The ground camera is amazing. Still a long way to get to LEO.
Terrible choice to have others talk opinions while the main announcers are in the background who are doing a play by play. Producer should be spoken too.
Watch it just magically implode
chills!! nice work!!
Amazing! This is a monumental moment in history.
Spectacular! Very pleased for the mother and daughter team. Well done, crew 👏 👍
You mean the two token passengers, yeah I was never going to be two 20 year old surfer dudes from California, that is for certain!
... love the hair floating abt the place only women can do that eh!
@@XxxXxx-fm3wo Keep crying 😂😂😂😂😂
@@XxxXxx-fm3woSounds like you just don't like blacks.
@@DejiiJones_ He's not crying. Just stating a fact.
I have always wondered why Nasa and others go vertically into space which is highly dangerous but this is a much safer way for space travel.
Things that wont save the planet 1- Sending tourists to space to look at the planet
What an elegent solution for space tourism. I think this is the best solution so far, since it's more like an airplane.
Aeronauts
I was counting the seconds from drop and ignite to reaching their max in terms of how many dollars per second was burning along with the fuel.
Great job Mr BRANSON!!!!! FROM A FELLOW BRANSON❤❤❤
when I see richard branson I somehow start hearing the Jurrasic Park soundtrack
I hadn't realised that Richard Branson had first put himself at risk, credit to him.
Huge congrats to Richard B and his team. What an achievement, a long time in the making.
to infinity and beyond!)
And Henry Ford. What a great asset to the environment.
@@agreetodisagree4751 the environment's doomed in the long (perhaps not so long) term anyway.. Whether by asteroid, supervolcano, supernova.. The whole point of this is becoming a multi planetary, interstellar species, so we can save life itself, including our own.
😂😂😂 Astronauts talkin about bout them like Boxers Talk about Jake Paul
What control pad they using?
That's amazing. It's just floating there. As though the current was drifting it away. Dreams do come true.
Wow, watching that young lady stare back at the earth had me tearing up, just what a special experience for her, you could see in her eyes how powerful that would of been, she had a perspective nobody has on the planet her age and hope it inspires her to even greater things in her life
How are they videoing behind the spacecraft?
This is Unreal! I can't believe we're one step closer to greatness as a Civilization!
Very. But on another note, it’s very unfortunate we cannot explore the depths of the sea without the crushing powers. Condolences to the most tragic accident. In my opinion I have always been interested in the vast depths of our oceans vs space
How about calling them astrotourists.
What about AstroNots.
How about............passengers?
Many will complain, but it is amazing to see such a dream come true. Stuff like this will drive us forward...
forward to where?
The best complaint must be from the fe 😆
@@burnzz69to the sun
now we just need to do the same with ocean gate
almost had another titan moment in the sky
i really like the design of this ship.. It is how I envision space travel not on a missile design.
What a day and age we live in. Really awesome.
to infinity and beyond!)
Yep the world is a fair and equal place in 2023 🙄
Very well said.
P9909😅😅
@@jimbrown4456 no, but it never was. All the generations before us lived in varying kinds of ignorance and darkness. Everything in human affairs is flawed, and yet... ... that rocket burning bright, and beautiful spaceship disappearing beyond the atmosphere shows us the future could eventually be better. We can make amazing things happen and that means we have potential. Have faith my friend 👍🏻
I bet tourists are going to want Space Walks included in their adventure packages.
Saya paling suka kalau melihat luar angkasa.. saya sebagai negara Indonesia sangat bangga dengan teknologi ini..
Parabéns!! Uma grande vitória pra conquista do espaço Sideral!!
Flat earthers: you saw it was the world flat? No Flat earthers: I don’t believe you you’re working for them
Ya wanna know why this was funny? Cause when the crew landed and they brought Unity around they each said a few words and Keisha Schahaff said the earth was round at the end of her speech 😂
Do you think at 50 miles up you could see the entire earth ? NO, IMPOSSIBLE
@@craigsilver2146 so keisha managed to lie only moments after exiting haha i dont know how anyone can say its a globe when no one has ever seen it lol aside from piccard but who care about him hes from old times
@@theubc Piccard only managed to get up 10 miles. From 10 miles up one could only see a tiny portion of earth. Keisha only reported her fisheye lens view of her minds eye reality which deceived her. Open your mind and study reality my friend.
No curve presented period
You might want to do just one interview at a time for future coverage
Bravo Richard!!