Virgin Galactic Unity soars to suborbital space with its 1st commercial passengers
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2023
- Virgin Galactic successfully conducted its first commercial spaceflight on June 29, 2023. VSS Unity soared to suborbital space and back with a 4 passengers and 2 pilots. Full Story: www.space.com/virgin-galactic...
The passengers include:
Pantaleone Carlucci, an engineer at the National Research Council of Italy;
Colin Bennett, an astronaut instructor at Virgin Galactic;
Col. Walter Villadei of the Italian Air Force, who is training for a "future orbital space mission" to the International Space Station, according to Virgin Galactic materials;
Lt. Col. Angelo Landolfi, a physician with the Italian Air Force.
The pilots of VSS Unity include:
Mike Masucci
Nicola Pecile
Credit: Virgin Galactic - Розваги
"The astronauts were trained to look out the window" did I really hear that correctly?😂
Burt Rutan's feathered re-entry design from Space Ship One (2004) is now fully developed and carrying passengers into suborbital space. Just one of many out-of-the-box concepts from Rutan over long career. What a great tribute to him. Congrats Virgin Galactic for bring this technology to maturity and achieving commercial success.
Exactly. I got to see spaceshipone and Proteus at scaled’s facilities many years ago. Spaceship one used a Garmin to navigate.
Also got to meet Burt.
He also invented the fleshlight!
@@quincym-e4680What a hero 😏
Burt Rutan put aviation design on its ear. A true record breaker (designed the first, and so far, only plane to circumnavigate the world non-stop) and made cutting edge aviation accessible to all. Fast, sleek and easy to fly designs that have changed the very face of aviation. Sir Richard Branson hitched his wagon to a most brilliant horse. Fantastic.
Can’t believe this wasn’t more popular. It’s actually incredible what Virgin has done.
@@REPORTEVERYLIBERALCOMMENT I didn’t ask a question lol
@@REPORTEVERYLIBERALCOMMENT How so ?
Its not popular because billionaires didn't die.
Still nothing more then a super six flags ride. Only spaceX with actual orbiting counts for me.
Its a Blue Origin class flight that glides and lands! Wow! LOL!
So glad to see Virgin is back in the game! Boy, I miss Walter Cronkite narrating space flight....
This is not space flight. Walter would confirm this
Amazing! Sixty years after we flew to the moon, hopped out , skipped around and flew all the way home, we have managed to get into sub orbital space and take our belts off !
Fwoar!!
Would have liked to have seen a view of the cockpit and pilots. It’d be interesting to see what sort of set up they’re rocking up there.
There's something that you don't see every day! Well done Virigin Galactic!
With VG, it will 😊
flat earths crying
@@leonhughes9014 The earth is still flat lol ~ now cry
Impressive, they went Mach 2.8 and 52.9 miles straight up. Very few pilots have ever gone that fast. Only astronauts have gone that high and higher.
@@dontshoot7665It's under 100km's so it's not space, the vehicle is not a spacecraft but a plane that just goes high and these guys are definitely not astronauts
This is pretty cool and is a great achievement by Virgin.
The definition of “space” is still not widely agreed upon.
While not exceeding the Kármán line of 100km, their 80+ km apogee would qualify them for US Military and FAA “astronaut” qualification.
However, at 275000 feet, a powered aircraft would still be reliant on atmospheric forces generating lift as opposed to inertial forces keeping it in orbit.
@@the-dutch-hollander7363 I think she gets to space because 0 gravity but they should be capable to make a couple of turns to Earth to be a seriuous business..
@@viarnay Zero G can be experience at airliner altitudes by flying a parabola, which is basically all that this vehicle does...."Space" is above 400,000 feet.
@@viarnay Its not space and not 0G. Its simulated microgravity because of the parabola trajectory.
X15, Mach 5, 345,000 feet, 150+ missions starting in 1959. Looks fun but that is it. $450,000 a ride, not for the people.
True, but think of it this way. This program is a continuation of the X-15 program.
Air travel wasn't for the "people" either when it first started.
the financial threshold to get into space is still immense and to reach an orbit - astronomical for normal people 😮
Fun fact: The Kármán line, the official boundary of space per the International Aeronautics Federation, is 100 kilometers so these folks don't get to call themselves astronauts.
Fun fact: according to the rules in the US the space begins at 80 km so they indeed flew into space (though they aren’t astronauts)
@@olasek7972: It has changed over the years. That was the military's line, but NASA used 100 km for years until changing the policy to match the Air Force. Most of the world wouldn't recognize any such claim though. Not that it matters much.
Astronaut Lite.
Congrats! Slowly but surely it is passing milestones
Guy on right of the two chicks was thinking "Please kill me."
You "trained the astronauts to go look out the window ..."
I'm so impressed. You actually found a group of humans who did not know how to look out a window. Your training program is impressive.
hey if it i was to be given the option to do this for free I would. its still an achievement for the company to be able to do this. while I agree it's not as impressive as an orbital mission.
Agreed 100%. Although this is an impressive achievement… it looked like zombies in the seats.
They call them mission specialists. They specialize in paying big bucks for rides! Helluva an experience though
This girl is annoying.
@@alfavulcan4518I would too if I had the money.
It certainly has been a long time coming, BUT, many congrats to the Virgin Galactic team for the successful flight!! Splendid!
Wernher von Braun
Aggregate 4 (V2)
1942- 80km altitude
1945- 200km altitude
As defined by the International Aeronautical Association (FAI), the Aggregat 4 rocket was the first man-made object in space to reach an altitude of over 100 km.
They didn't even reached the Kármán line.
Check out what is written on his tombstone. May the truth set you free.
@@josephallen8044 The truth is that not one from the more than 1200 religions have been proven true.
Wernher von Braun was a Nazi, and Nazi party members had to be Christians, whether they believed in obvious BS or not.
@@josephallen8044definitely not what we are seeing here that's for sure
@@josephallen8044amen. Look at that horizon. So many asleep.
Beautiful Bird ,Definitely a Space Craft Great job there Congratulations Virgin Galactic and their crew
much cooler looking than the Bezos ship
@@nathalieplum2137m o r o n it's all fake, there is no space.
@quantumprotocol6045 why would it be fake
@@ThunderBOLT.92 why?, I am not going to try to convince you, is your own personal perception who must lead you to investigate when things don't add up.
I have never seen any proof that this project, virgin, is ment to to go anywhere, in the same way the Bezos penis aka blue origin is also a total hoax, both projects going on for 25 years and counting and nada to show for, and even space x is, all of them are diversions meant to deflect and distract from the NASA fraud, sucking billions and billions for 70 years without justifying what benefit they bring to humanity, so diverting the blame into the supposed private sector is a way of fooling the masses and confuse them with volumes and mass quantities of space related projects so they can't follow up all flights and satélites and all this missions to who knows what have never even produced one single real photograph of the earth from any vessel traveling through space, that in reality are being filmed with CGI and in various studios and locations around the planet. So you better know this pal, we can't leave this realm, we are in an enclosed system and space travel is a fantasy created by men for men just like in the hollywood system, it's all make belief.
I can give you a thousand samples of fraud, fakeries, and non provable space stories that are being force fed daily to the public, the question is, are you mature and open minded enough to look into those facts even if what you find will destroy your ego and self esteem?
Are you, or you still want to go with the narrative an live your space fantasy of Elon, chubaka and the superheroes from comicon.
Even tiktokers are waking up to reality, however maybe too late because with ai we won't be able to access any real information any more.
Better hurry up
@@ThunderBOLT.92Because it is how they keep us the masses inline and conforming AKA "SLAVES".
Beautiful experience. Looks almost as good enough for short term micro g science research experiments. Hope to try it as a scientist one day. Hope they become more successful
Congratulations on your high altitude airplane!
Aw, man, missed this live. Thanks for this!
They're PASSENGERS, not 'astronauts". And the two who remained in their seats instead of enjoying micro gravity ... opting instead to play on their tablets ... I have no words!
"becoming astronauts"
Give me a break. They're tourists. If these people are astronauts, then I'm an airline pilot because I flew across the Atlantic.
Looks like a fun trip, though.
Maybe you just don't know what a Astronaut is, it has nothing to do with being a pilot of anything
@@Frog89mad You have to go above 100km to qualify as an astronaut.
These guys are pilots and scientists in the Italian Air Force and have had training for their research flight.
@@NoTaboos Not in the USA; 80 km. 100km to qualify as "cosmonaut".
@@NoTaboos and that just depends on who you ask
Looking forward to Starship next launch❤❤
Way to go VIRGIN GALACTIC!!!! Congratulations to all in the program. A wonderful comeback!!! Another milestone in aerospace history. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🍻
Really appreciate all the commentary on the video. It really adds a lot.
Isn't it amazing how dark space gets. One thing good about this type of flight is it does not get too hot in reentry.
it would if you stepped outside
It doesn't get hot because it's not reentering at orbital speeds...it's suborbital...just up and down.
@@gjbloos That is correct
I noticed that as I was waiting for the the heat to build up.
The energy of reentry at full orbital speeds would be roughly 60 times higher and then you get those red glowing temperatures…
I once flew to Costa Rica with a connection at JFK. I don't see myself as having spent time in NYC anymore than these 'astronauts' have spent time in space. Soz!
I can see this going the same way as that submarine
That was the speed of Lightning! and way cool
Congratulations Virgin Galactic on this history making flight and safe return.
Incredibly hard to achieve this type of precision. Well done. Truly a team effort.
This is some achievement & it didn't break up into thousands of pieces.👏
That one guy never seemed to look up from his device! It's like when I take the kids on vacation!
If there had been an accident, this flight would have been trashed by talking heads and the dozens of people who had "known" that there would be a problem. Like the Titan disaster, everyone is an expert after the fact.
agreed but this would be more of a surprise, fully acredited program with certification and testing
It will happen.
@@whatyoudo9773 already happen when one of the craft ripped apart and a pilot died. At mach 2.5 wouldn't be surprised if we have more fatalities with such a design. Huge side wings that rotate, looks suspiciously dangerous to me.
They didn’t go above the Karman line so they didn’t officially go into space.
The US recognizes 80km as being the start of space.
Actually, they flew about 5 km above the line.
Oh ok but still good, so not official astronauts then? 🤔
@@davidtomlinson6138 NASA has said they will no longer classify private spaceflight passengers as astronauts.
NASA's pissed off about all the private sector spacecraft so they are going to deny astronaut status to these people only astronauts from NASA spending American dollars are recognized as astronauts
Last week everyone on UA-cam was a submersible engineer expert. This week everyone is an aerospace engineer.
8:06 She'll be doing fluid research. I will be glad to assist her 😁
What would we do without these pioneers?Well done to all involved!!!
Pioneiro 😅😅😅
How are they pioneers? hundreds of astronauts have gone in to space in many different type of spacecraft. But when rich people do it you call them pioneers? Wow.
😂continue what you do, you're funny 😂
Pioneers? Men were doing these same parabolic flights in the 1950’s.
Those men in the 50’s were pioneers. These people are copying those men.
When are they actually going into higher orbit. I don't consider them astronauts....no space suits...just parachutes. Still cool to see. Come on Virgin....get with it!!
Very smooth .great job👍
"They've done it... they've finally done it !" good job guys 👍👍
We are doing this but they scrapped the CONCORD? Lets get fast transport going on the surface again please.
Is it me or did it look like they were truly weightless for less than a minute and the rest of the time had some pull of gravity as they moved around?
It is a couple of minutes or so. Not very long at all. Once the rocket shuts down, weightlessness starts and continues until just before they hit the atmosphere on the way down. They must be back in their seats before they get to that point.
I was amazed only 2 of the guys experienced the weightless.the other 2 stayed strapped in...no way i'd remain seated if I had that oppurtunity!
They were "weightless" cause the freefall. Not cause they were in "space".
@@TripleWhopperWithCheeseAgreed.. People clearly didnt see how fast the Altometer spins backwards... AKA falling 😂
The reentry looked pretty smooth. That's really cool
Let's see what it looks like at orbital speed.
Great job Virgin congratulation on such a successful flight the dream is here and best wishes to future flights
I wonder why they don't go higher for a longer experience.
Rocket motor is too small unfortunately.
Risk of implosion, er explosion, err RUD
More expensive. SpaceX you can go couple of days but with bigger price tag.
@@Kaneda0015 And if it's Starship, you can just, you know, die
@@jaydonbrown617 Starship is still in development, But SpaceX you can go with Falcon 9.
Fantastic! Congratulations to Sir Richard. He’s worked hard all of his life to get to this. Men like him are our leaders. We don’t appreciate them enough.
Never trust a hippy!
He's a fraud and this thing never went to space. It couldn't handle the heat of traveling at Mach 2.5. It's a joke.
In 2007 they were promising flight apogees in excess of 400,000 feet.... this upper atmosphere flight didn't reach 280,000 feet......
@@gerrycohen4703 They didn't make it higher than 135,000 feet, that feed on the screen wasn't even right, mach 2.5 in that thing would have burnt to a crisp.
Think about it. They're telling you this thing just went as fast as an SR-71 blackbird, lol.
@@subvertedworldFalse , the 71's ceiling is 85,000 feet & travels at up to mach 3.3 so no comparison between the two birds makes sense . Also this is not a spacecraft travelling at 20,000 miles an hour in space re-entering earth's atmosphere so why you think it should burn to a crisp is anybody's guess . Are you a flerf ?
AWESOME!!! Great Job Richard!
Dude that aircraft looks like something straight out of a sci fi film
"as we continue to bleed off some energy" dude it's at about 155 mph at that point, it's not the space shuttle XD (edit: the space shuttle re-entered the atmosphere at 17,000 mps (mach 22) and had to "bleed off" this energy to reach it's landing speed of 246 mph)
When do these flights start going somewhere? It’s time for one of these to launch and then land on another continent. Truly amazing stuff!
we already have machines that do that
Voam pra ver tudo plano
Too expensive compared to modern aircraft, not feasible at the moment
@@YYLiowtoo expensive like Concorde.
If anyone is wondering why the elev. read 4k on the ground, this is a high elevation area of NM.
Four minutes worth of space time, forgive me but is that really enough time to do meaningful experiments?
It was a Blue Origin class flight that glides and lands! LOL!
No, VG is a joke among real space companies.
A good experiment at separating people from their money I'm sure...
Congrats. More space travel the best.
Real aerospace engineering, real progress, and not cult of personality in sight.
"Real aerospace" LOL - Low orbit is at 6.336.000 ft - in the video the "astronauts" went only 270.000 ft up. Still looooong ways up to orbit, also impossible for this setup, it is just a PR stunt.
where are the stars then? ;)
@@goodson77784 learn about camera exposure then get back to me
I only see the cult of personality.
@@goodson77784 there are many ways to see stars, your obviously aren't aware just how easy it is... 💫
As much as I respect the work and enormous challenges that must be overcome to get people into space, they really need a more powerful motor to get them into a sustainable orbit. At present, they’re just going straight up, experiencing weightlessness for a few minutes and then gliding back to earth.
I thought that was the whole point of suborbital travel. They aren't going into full orbit. So there's no need for anything else or more powerful. They are going exactly where they want to go. Going into orbit would require a completely different vessel that can make it through the atmospheric reentry. Millions and probably billions of dollars.
They would need to add more fuel and another stage to get any higher. To reach orbit, they would need something much bigger than that vehicle and then they would have to shed pieces of it on the way up to get to orbit.
@@egroegartfart Oh, I get it now. A bit like trying to climb a mountain, 'we'll get halfway up then come down again' Yeah, right!
@@TheNobbynoonar their goal was space tourism. this is exactly what they were after. your analogy is bad
@@gelade In your opinion.
Congrats to all-- fantastic!
They should put thrusters under it so after it loops, it can hover for an extended period of time.
Look it's impressive, but they're not astronauts. They're sub-orbital passengers who in this flight were well short of the Karman Line of 60 miles which designates astronaut status 🤔
Shut up,I'm Spaceman
I’ve flown on many military, private, and commercial aircraft. That doesn’t make me a Pilot.
You mean 100km.
US doesn't recognize the Karman line.
Well done 👍 all the best 👍.
I didn’t hear about this anywhere until UA-cam
You folks are doing fine work!
They should be in pressure suits.
The cabin is pressurized so there's no need.
presuming theres no potential loss of pressure
No need, they didn't go to space.
I'm surprised they're not , maybe it's about looking to the future n tourism and being confident if the technology but things do go wrong occasionally but in this case all good and we are GO !
@@ClassicalvsTactical there's still not enough pressure at that altitude though. But the craft itself is pressurized so it doesn't matter. If they lost pressure they would be dead either way with or without a suit most likely.
Please enjoy the Zero G experience, drinks will be served shortly.
Some one please explain and learn me. Why did it look like the exhaust tip of the rocket look like it was meltin otw up and when it cut off it clearly had jagged edges around the circumference……. Is that supposed to happen?
Oh Please Mr Branston im skint was an engineer and carpenter and just love the thought of one day just experience this like Star Trek as a disabled guy would be mental mate
That's a very impressive machine.
If they don't break the Karman Line (100km) are they truly astronauts?
I was wondering that 🤔🙂
they went to 5km above the Karman Line
@@allanedwards1036 @2:58 the craft's apogee was 279131ft (85.079km), which means Unity was 14.92km shy of the Karman Line. "Missed it by that much." - Maxwell Smart
@@TenorDad Um in The US for NASA and the US Airforce Space is recognised as 80 kms so Get Stuffed.
according to the FAA they are, FAA defines space as 80 km and above (not the Karman Line)
I agree , kept quiet wasn't it? Brilliant , must be great to know you're an official astronaut , not many can boast that 👍
Not official by any recognized entity. Space is 328,000 feet they made it to 275,000. That’s 10 miles short.
Von Karman line is 62 miles and that's the point where are considered a spaceman. 52.9 miles traveled they went 279,866 ft
@@stevenichols4639 I mean they would technically be seen as astronauts under US military and FAA requirements therefore would get their astronaut wings
Nice that they had Mac Lethal on the panel.
Congratulations! Awesome flight!
This is an amazing achievement.
An amazingly FAKE achievement. The GULLIBILITY of humans knows no bounds!
Are they using starlink for connectivity? First ever dota2 player outerspace?
Why it looks like its not balance when running.
Doing hyperbolic flights on a "spaceport" with ~2 min of freefall. Real astronauts ...
The reason this isn’t getting more attention is because it’s not really adding anything to the moon and mars conversation. I’m not trying to rain on anyone’s parade but it’s true. A small craft carried to a point under the power of another craft just to make a short burst jump isn’t really doing much of anything. I guess it’s just another thing ultra rich people can spend their money on.
In fact, it fills a gap between superexpensive fully orbital flights and 12 second microgravity flights in a modified jetliner. The scientific potential is absolutely prodigious.
@@jul1440Not really.
@@jul1440 hardy, a few seconds of zero g doesn't compare to the constant zero g on the space station.
@@AORD72 The 12 seconds on Vomit Comet ✈️ doesn't compare to _VSS Unity;_ this spacecraft fills the gap between the Comet and orbital spaceflight, and is in extreme scientific demand.
How are none of these guys looking out of the window at Earth below? That's all I'd be doing from orbit.
It wasn't in orbit.
I was wondering the same thing lol
They did, but they also had experiments to conduct.
Look like they were just sitting there to me. I would have just been amazed to look back at earth. Even though they were not in orbit, it still provided that view. It’s something that very few people have ever seen!
Because they had to conduct science experiments. No time to look out the window which is sad..
AWESOME JOB ! One more giant step for mankind. As a species that needs to explore and expand, this is the natural next step to fulfill our curiosities. Our existence depends on visionaries and the people who are willing to take grave chances to fulfill them. Thanks to Virgin for helping lead they way.
Literally thought this was an ad for a sci-fi movie. Crazy times we live
So happy to see Virgin Galactic pull off this amazing accomplishment! After all these years and sacrifices they were able to get to space with the first commercial passengers . Congratulations!
They got kinda near space. Kinda.
A glorified plane going a little higher than the cloud for a few seconds OK then 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ScotsmanGamer and what accomplishments have you made towards space yeah that's what I thought.
@@jrummyjs wtf does what I do have to do with anything!?!? you absolutely failed abortion..... WTF have you done for it!?!? Nothing either so you're being hypocritical that's what I thought.... Now child back to your kids table 😭😂😂😂😂
@@jrummyjs just checked your channel out wtf is that short all about with the guy rambling BS 😂😂😂😂 you talk of contributing yet you're wasting bandwidth & storage on UA-cam delete that joke content you have on it.... That's WHAT I THOUGHT WHAT A 🤡
You can more or less consider this a restart of the old X-15 program. There are some cost advantages to the boost into the air under a plane model. Good to orbit for medium size craft, replacing the SpaceX Dragon and the Boeing whatever that will never fly. There is a place for this sort of system.
More like the never flown Dyna-Soar project.
The X-15 did Mach 7.
It has a place as a carnival ride for the rich. Nothing more.
This was huge! Grats guys!
It's crazy that keeps staring Around inside the cab. Of the station Instead of looking out the window at things they won't ever see or have never seen before
Compared to other weightless videos, this one looked anticlimactic to me. The view of the earth at apogee was nice, but the most impressive thing was the feathered braking, which may have applications in the future.
Although I think it’s a long way away from being applicable to a re-entry from orbital velocities.
Interesting. A few moments in space makes you an astronaut now huh? I respectfully reserve that title for those who make it their profession. Not tourists. But, I guess it's kinda like how working one day on a mine site legally makes you a miner for a year. But then again, if thats true, then why aren't you considered a mariner after someone shows you how to put on a life vest and you spend an hour on a boat?
go into a mine and you are not a miner, fly to space you are not an astronaut, but f*** 1 pig ....
lol sorry had to use the old joke
@@BaddAtom 🤣
A job responsible and well done has only one result: success!!!
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World" Congratulations to all !!
A 15 min flight with about two min of weightlessness for $450,000.. If you've got the coin, go for it. The commercial potential for microgravity experiments has gotta be pretty low, but probably cheaper than launching your experiment to the ISS.
It is actually in extreme demand.
When did this happen? Nothing in Australian news. (Nothing new lol) And mate in the brown leather jacket...Producer in his headphones 'OK, scribble something now so it looks like your intelligent' 🤣
state controlled media. Try the Word of God. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Because it is hardly news worthy when compared to SpaceX which actual sends people into space.
Great work and the video capture is next level at that high attitude.
I thought they were pretty resolved, didn't see too much attitude 😂
@@MrRedeyedJedi 😂😂
Just praying this isn’t the space version of the titan
Nice CGI
Nice!
I realized that speed kept on dropping can someone please explain it to me
Interesting Thought -- Instead of flying back to base, how far could it travel in an A to B straight line ?
Isn’t it Amazing how in all the comments people are saying how Amazing this is, Shows that the youngsters today have not got a Clue about Sub Orbital space , they actually believe that they flew into Outer Space ….😂😂😂😂😂. They DID NOT … There is a massive difference between Orbital Space and actually getting into Outa Space…. And thats why it hasn’t been big news, You see there are Aircraft that do that journey almost every Day … But don’t take Civilian passengers with out Government permission,, The Russians have 26 Planes capable of flying that High since 1965…. Its a Scam
Shut up and enjoy the engineering behind this vehicle instead of bitching about something everyone knows is controversial
Wait what happened to the violant rentry fireball that's supposed to accure?
This is a sophisticated amusement park ride and all the hype surrounding it is just marketing hubris and spin 🤔
Learn a little about Burt Rutan and the history behind this flight and you will understand.
Are we just gonna ignore the fact that it doesn't even cross the Kármán line?
they did reach 80 KM ...that's above the line doofus
@@allanedwards1036 It's 100 km "doofus"
Huge!!!! Way to go Virgin Galactic!!!!
"We've trained our astronauts to go to the window and look out..." Fuck me, I've lived too fucking long.
Very cool!