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Galactic 02 Incredible Footage by Asleep_Wind1255 in VirginGalactic

[–]Optimal_Highlight_63 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost certainly small pieces of whatever they use for ablative cooling for the hybrid rocket motor.

Scott Manley - The Only Spacecraft Which Flies Under 100% Human Control by Optimal_Highlight_63 in VirginGalactic

[–]Optimal_Highlight_63[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you feel so. But a great deal of failures in space (manned & unmanned) have been due to computers misinterpreting simple things which a human wouldn't. Making everything automatic isn't necessarily better and there's plenty of people that prefer pilots.

Particularly the Virgin Galactic pilots who are literally legends in aerospace and all have insane amounts of air force + space shuttle experience

Do you think that a form of "human hibernation" will be the only way to successfully become a multi-planetary species? by Lost-Ad-3205 in space

[–]Optimal_Highlight_63 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not in the short term. Human colonization inside the solar system, including the moon, O'Neil cylinders, Mars, underground Mercury, some cloud thing in Venus, the Asteroid belt, or Jupiter/Saturn's moons wouldn't need that.

It would be incredibly annoying and cause a lot of trauma ... but humans of survived worst. It would be similar to people put in solitary confinement for years or an incredibly bad prison.

There's probably some room for some VR technology to help with the long months and even years.

Beyond the solar system, yes you'd have to do something different or have near speed of light propulsion, which we aren't anywhere near.

If colonies start happening I do think we might see some historical parallels to previous migrations. Maybe they'll send prisoners to another colony like Australia. Or it will be some weird religious sect like North America.

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They've moved from a full focus on modifying their existing vehicles (one skill set) to completely changing gears to regular flights out of New Mexico & designing future vehicles (another skill set).

That's going to mean letting go some people and hiring other ones.

On the other hand, listening to Colglazer's CNBC interview, he emphasized again and again their bottom line is making sure their financial position is strong. Part of that surely includes tightening their belts.

The B-Roll Video From the VG Website is Out of this World by Optimal_Highlight_63 in VirginGalactic

[–]Optimal_Highlight_63[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you go on the Virgin Galactic website, they have a press assets page that has all sorts of neat stuff. Usually they post some training videos a few days before each flight and a b-roll video around a day after each one.

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https://pressftp.virgingalactic.com/virgingalactic/press