Virgin Galactic CEO on preparations for Richard Branson's spaceflight
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2021
- Virgin Galactic shares surged on Friday after the space tourism venture announced its next spaceflight test will carry founder Sir Richard Branson. Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier joined "Squawk on the Street" to discuss the preparations for the trip. To see the full interview with Colglazier sign up for a free trial to CNBC Pro: cnb.cx/3hddurd
Virgin Galactic announced on Thursday that the space tourism company will attempt to launch its next test spaceflight on July 11, carrying founder Sir Richard Branson.
Branson is aiming to beat fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos to space, as the latter plans to launch with his own company, Blue Origin, on July 20.
“After more than 16 years of research, engineering, and testing, Virgin Galactic stands at the vanguard of a new commercial space industry, which is set to open space to humankind and change the world for good,” Branson said in a statement. “I’m honoured to help validate the journey our future astronauts will undertake and ensure we deliver the unique customer experience people expect from Virgin.”
This will be Virgin Galactic’s fourth test spaceflight to date and its first mission with a crew of four on board, as the company launched its most recent spaceflight, on May 22, with just two pilots.
Shares of Virgin Galactic popped more than 20% during after-hours trading, up from Thursday’s close of $43.19.
Alongside Branson will be three Virgin Galactic mission specialists: Chief astronaut instructor Beth Moses, lead operations engineer Colin Bennett, and government affairs VP Sirisha Bandla. Virgin Galactic pilots Dave Mackay and Michael Masucci will fly the company’s VSS Unity spacecraft.
Virgin Galactic said it will livestream the spaceflight for the first time, a feed that will be available on Twitter, UA-cam and Facebook.
On June 25 the company announced that the Federal Aviation Administration granted it a license to fly passengers on future spaceflights, and Virgin is targeting early 2022 to begin flying paying passengers.
Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 to build a space tourism business.
The company’s spacecraft launch from a carrier aircraft before accelerating to more than three times the speed of sound. The spacecraft then spends a few minutes in microgravity above 80 kilometers altitude - the boundary the U.S. officially recognizes as space - before slowly flipping around and gliding back to Earth to land on a runway.
Virgin Galactic competes only with Bezos’ Blue Origin in the realm of suborbital space tourism, as Elon Musk’s SpaceX carries passengers on longer trips into orbit, such as to the International Space Station.
In June, Bezos announced that he would fly on Blue Origin’s first passenger flight of its New Shepard rocket. Bezos is scheduled to launch on July 20, and will fly alongside his brother as well as the winner of a $28 million public auction and legendary aerospace pioneer Wally Funk.
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I would like to know what it is to feel the sensation of space lifting your body. Do hope to achieve this experience in the near future. Godspeed Sir Branson 🚀
Get on a roller-coaster...
Space doesn’t lift your body. You body is simply release from the effects of gravity by the free fall.
Bullshitspeed more like it. Just make me goddamned money and everything will be cool.
You absolutely can. For $400k.
Great company. Very visionary. Doing great things for mankind
I'm genuinely happy that space tourism is finally becoming a reality but please stop referring to tourists as "astronauts". People who ride in planes are not pilots or aviators. People who ride in ships are not captains or sailors. People who ride in spacecraft are not astronauts. They are all PASSENGERS. Call them space tourists, space flyers, spaceflight participants, call them anything you like, but they are not astronauts. Because being an astronaut is about training, discipline, commitment, responsibilities, etc. It's about choosing it as a vocation, not about crossing the Karman Line. The word "Astronaut" has 60 years of respect and admiration attached to it and that status has always been EARNED, not purchased. Real astronauts are astronauts even if they haven't yet been to space. Passengers and tourists are not astronauts even if they have.
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Well, the Karman line for all.
they chose right timing for interview, when stock hasn't dropped to 44 yet =)
What about Rocketlab? Interesting spac imo.
Why. Is. There. Shepard. Smith. At. The. End. Of. Every. Video.
Why??
Soooo annoying.
Will Rick take Morty with him?
👍♥️♥️
are either going make money anytime soon?
Man I bet the FLAT EARTH will look amazing from SPACE!!!!! 👨🚀
Flat as a board
Can't wait for a flat earther to book a flight
Can't wait to see the disbelief on their face.
iTs rOunD
Gordon Ramsay: It's RAWnd!
Looking forward to seeing this flight! Here's my interview with Sir Richard about the flight ua-cam.com/video/LwU71QvKiOs/v-deo.html
"...when he comes back for us to interview..." HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
pretty confident with that one aren't you?
flight to nowhere
You lame af bruh
make the price high again. nobody cares about space we need DALLARS
Richard around early 2000s : "Flights to the Moon soon, hotels on the moon soon"
2021 reality Virgin Galactic : "around 90km in orbit only"
1961 : Yuri Gagarin 327km in orbit
2000s : private space tourists trips to ISS International Space Station 408km in orbit
2021 Virgin Galactic and Richard : "we are awesome see"
History : "no you are underperforming compared to what has already been done and even more compared to the exaggerated claims you made decades ago and that are yet still not true in 2021. Try not to hype something up like that when you underperform"
There were private space tourists in 2000's?
@@s.daniel2259 No, Beth Moses was the first passenger on the VG flight in 2019
@@ryanroberts9011 oh yeah! So VG had two fatalities in one of the flights?
VSS Enterprise crashed in 2014, killing the co-pilot. The pilot managed to survive!
@@s.daniel2259 "There were private space tourists in 2000's?" Yes, one example 2011 millionaire Dennis Tito on the ISS International Space Station.
There is also a full article on Space tourism on wikipedia, from the 1980s to now.