cubinator Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 So how long until this thing is flying daily? Pretty exciting that they are getting ready to carry people! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Wen hop I think I'm overusing this joke, help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 The hold they are in now is longer than the entire flight I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 "brief hold" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuessingEveryDay Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Meanwhile the SpaceX fans are storming the YouTube chat. Man... I'm a SpaceX fanboy, but not that much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminal Velocity Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Blue moon lander for ksp as a mod possibly please? Also why the heck is the hold 30 minutes long (But they did hold for 45 minutes on NS-14 so maybe same deal?) Anyways, NEW SHEPARD STEAKOUT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 3 minutes ago, GuessingEveryDay said: Meanwhile the SpaceX fans are storming the YouTube chat. Man... I'm a SpaceX fanboy, but not that much! Didn't they disable chat? I'm not seeing it on my stream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 1 minute ago, RealKerbal3x said: Didn't they disable chat? I'm not seeing it on my stream. It's disabled on the official one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 There is no chat, never is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 (edited) Out of hold now, New Shepard high-altitude flight test in 10 mins Edited April 14, 2021 by RealKerbal3x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Good launch and landing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 They've got to get the price competing with parabolic airplane rides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Excellent drone shots on this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuessingEveryDay Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 44 minutes ago, Rocketry101 said: Blue moon lander for ksp as a mod possibly please? Sorry bud, this is the wrong place to ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Maybe it's just that this is a much smaller rocket with lots of extra mass fraction to play around with but it is SPORTY off the pad. Makes an Atlas V or a Falcon 9 look positively sluggish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 It's easy for shorter rockets to look quick. The same speed is more body-lengths which is how we tend to judge speediness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tater Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 You go to their website so you can sign up to learn how to buy the first seat in a few days. Why not just tell people what it costs? How is it hype to wait days to find out? I guess if you have so much money it doesn't matter what it costs this video is for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 In fact ... let's think about who is trying to sell space tourism. Jeff Bezos, richest guy in the world. Elon Musk, also at times richest guy in the world. Richard Branson, pretty rich guy also. Does it ever seem like maybe their idea of what would be an affordable lark might be a little distorted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 7 minutes ago, mikegarrison said: In fact ... let's think about who is trying to sell space tourism. Jeff Bezos, richest guy in the world. Elon Musk, also at times richest guy in the world. Richard Branson, pretty rich guy also. Does it ever seem like maybe their idea of what would be an affordable lark might be a little distorted? Gee, if only their plans didn’t also incorporate hundreds of other people in order to work at all, some of whom may be there specifically to proffer economic reality checks about potential market sizes... Ok that came out a bit snarky, but seriously, these guys don’t run their operations in a vacuum. They have people to tell them where that merge between “affordable” and “actually funds the operation” is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 (edited) 14 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Gee, if only their plans didn’t also incorporate hundreds of other people in order to work at all, some of whom may be there specifically to proffer economic reality checks about potential market sizes... Ok that came out a bit snarky, but seriously, these guys don’t run their operations in a vacuum. They have people to tell them where that merge between “affordable” and “actually funds the operation” is. Are you seriously trying to argue that space tourism isn't exclusively for the super-rich? We don't know for sure yet what a ticket on New Shepard costs, but we know Virgin Galactic is pricing theirs at $250,000 for a flight. And that's supposedly a discounted "early adopter" price. Edited April 29, 2021 by mikegarrison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 16 minutes ago, mikegarrison said: Does it ever seem like maybe their idea of what would be an affordable lark might be a little distorted? Certainly true. That said, if they could fly NS for 10s of thousands a seat instead of 100s, they might actually broaden the market substantially. I know people who have been saving up to try Everest, for example. Not poor by any stretch, but not rich, either. (wanna say it's on the order of 50k) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying dutchman Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Going on holliday by plane was also only for the super rich at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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