Virgin Galactic successfully tests its flight and prepares for space tourism

It would seem that Virgin Galactic once had a bad luck: Richard Branson's private space company, after teasing the public's skepticism by claiming that it would make a first test trip to the borders between Earth and space. Before Christmas, has just successfully completed a test flight with VSS Unity, a spacecraft designed to bring humans into space in the near future.

The success of this flight is important because it was piloted by two pilots and hit altitude of about 82 kilometers, this is the highest flight that the company has ever achieved in 14 years of history. Many people already consider this attitude as an area of ​​space, outside the Earth's atmosphere, but there are also some who define this limit only at 100 km altitude. However, the success of Thursday's flight (13) paves the way for the company to launch its space tourism program, where it will soon make commercial flights to the suborbital space. [19659003] Nice photo of takeoff! WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo rise in the heavens pic.twitter.com/JFcSDVB9jR

– Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) December 13, 2018

And we started this news by talking about the bad days of Virgin Galactic because the company has a long history of broken promises. tragedy happens in 2007: three people were killed during the tests conducted by the company that year. And all this got worse in 2014 when the ship called VSS Enterprise (yes, in the honor of the famous franchise ship Star Trek ) crashed during a test flight and caused the death of his pilot. The new manned test flights were resumed only in 2018.

The company now has to reveal when the ship will be released for the first tourist flights, about 600 people having already bought their tickets to In advance, for $ 250,000 per place to see the Earth from above, directly from the space. During this fantastic trip, pbadengers will spend a few minutes to experience a near microgravity experience.

Source: Mashable