'Completely surreal': Tourists recount flight to edge of space on Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic has succeeded in flying three tourist into space for the first time.
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They were former Olympian Jon Goodwin, Antiguan health and wellness coach Keisha Schahaff and her 18-year-old daughter, Anastasia Mayers. "You are so much more connected to everything than you would expect to be. You felt like a part of the team, a part of the ship, a part of the universe, a part of Earth," said Anastasia.
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[@JustHackingAround]

Most moving was the man with Parkinson's disease being able to experience something like this.

[@SoKelly]

I cried!!!

[@georgejetson2637]

The chick in the middle was told to say that....1000%.

[@Boitumelo789]

1000% so annoying

[@umahlekisa]

Look how flat the earth is

[@Scoresbyhassan]

I was thinking the same 😂

[@NoWindNoSunNoPower]

I thought that they went into space. Was this just a very high plane ride?

[@C2theCity]

They went into space for a bit

[@macbook802]

They went on a mission to prove mars is flat

[@oryenm]

it's like on the very edge

[@umahlekisa]

​@@oryenmfirmament doesn't care about how rich you are ,you will smash into it.

[@papalegba6796]

They didn't go anywhere 😂

[@johnwade7430]

A very expensive way of getting people to connect with each other and their Planet❤

[@jayman6087]

Yeah, but this is forging new ground for space travel and a future that is going to require it. There are other countries who don't like us vying for position to control space. We should not have given up on the moon, we could be lightyears ahead of everyone else if we'd put a base out there. I know most of the tension will be in the inner orbit, but having a base beyond would've been great position.

[@RM-306]

Mach 3 in 8.5 seconds wow! How much G force is that?! Amazing

[@myer8084]

About 3-5

[@mysteriousstranger6857]

It's like billionaires want to be revolted against.

[@simonlee498]

It flew into a Hollywood studio - flat earther

[@joshua_valoi8236]

If that was Ocean gate we would be cryong now

[@will3447]

This is like "The Emperor's New Dress" After spending hundred of thousands, you realized you were a fool to look at earth for 5 minute behind thick glass like it was child simulation, but at the very least, you can tell people how great and surreal it was, instead of telling people the truth how bad it had felt like to be a fool.

[@okoriehilary9233]

Wao, I will definitely love to have this experience with my wife and little daughters

[@MrEdwardsg]

They’re reading off a script

[@silverfoxx522]

Yeah and the earth is still flat😂😂😂😂😂

[@MrSatadal]

They were scammed. It was not space. They barely left thermosphere.

[@jirenthegray]

It's the edges of space which is a huge difference than outer space (i.e. the moon or space station). Technically the edge of space is actually space (as you're no longer in the Earth's atmosphere hence the lack of gravity).

[@umahlekisa]

Genesis 1 vs 6 the firmament is real. No one can escape God's design

[@sebastiannolte1201]

"It was not space. " They reached 89 km. It is space by the US definition (80 km) but not by most used international definition (100 km). However, why was it a scam? They knew that they don't go higher than 90 km. Let's just stop using the term "space", it doesn't mean anything. The atmosphere becomes thinner fluently, you cannot say where it ends. "They barely left thermosphere." You mean they barely entered the theemosphere. To leave the thermosphere you have to go about 600 km. The ISS at 400 km is in the thermosphere.

[@sebastiannolte1201]

@@jirenthegray "t's the edges of space which is a huge difference than outer space " Is it? The atmosphere becomes thinner fluently. You cannot say where it ends and it doesn't have an actual edge. Already at 36 km you have only 1 % of air pressure compared to sea level. On the other hand there is still so much atmosphere at the altitude of the International Space Station (400 km) that it loses more than 50 meters per day of altitude because the drag slows it down. And the moon is a complete different thing (384000 km away). Most used definitoon for the beginning of space is 100km - which is arbitrary. ". Technically the edge of space is actually space (as you're no longer in the Earth's atmosphere hence the lack of gravity)." Gravity has absolutely nothing to do with the atmosphere or space. The range of gravity is infinite. At the altitude of the International Space Station it is only 13 % weaker than down here.

[@sebastiannolte1201]

@@umahlekisa At what altitude is the firmament?

[@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar]

How much CO2 is being produced by these trips and what is being done to off-set this needless pollution?

[@JoeyAlaniz]

Branson has pledged to commit $3 billion, all profits from his travel firms over the next ten years, to the reduction of global warming. He has previously donated to educational charities in Africa. Branson started his first charity, “Student Valley Centre”, when he was only 17. What are you doing?

[@mymixedbiscuit9159]

Practically nothing. They do these monthly. A single plane firing up once a month? OMGGGGG SOOO NEEDLESS But when its billions upon billions of cars...well whadda we do The amount is so insanely negligible

[@veritas2222]

Why are trolls attacking this site?

[@magzmoney]

Boredom.

[@will3447]

Emperor's New Clothes

[@public.public]

What for? Joyrides for the rich while the planet burns?

[@mymixedbiscuit9159]

The rich first, then ordinary people.

[@veritas2222]

Lovely! I’ve been rather cynical about space tourism until hearing from these travelers. Thank you.

[@MrCheswickMusic]

So, a story on TV has put and end to your critical thinking now has it?

[@StratsRUs]

​@MrCheswickMusic laxatives may help you but I doubt it

[@NoWindNoSunNoPower]

@MrCheswickMusic - Phew! Critical thinking no less.

[@880life.7]

The flat earthers are like “ the earth looks flat from space” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bigbroSWSATX93H210]

Nice under water shots😂

[@YouTyranny]

A commercial clip.

[@michael-dy8tz]

What's really amazing is they had a man who's hands keep shaking and the way he talks you wonder if he has alzheimers and a girl with metal above, in and below her nose.

[@hiram7474]

Whey is a ring nose "amazing?

[@michael-dy8tz]

Because it's not normal to wear in the USA and looks terrible on people.@@hiram7474

[@hiram7474]

It's not normal to wear in the USA? Depends where in the US you are at, just as there are places in the US where wearing a cowboy hat isn't "normal". As far as looking terrible, it's a matter of preference (your opinion) which is valid, but not universally true. @@michael-dy8tz

[@michael-dy8tz]

Ok, I accept that@@hiram7474

[@fastspanish]

How much for the peanuts on flight?😅😅

[@faizalbinibrahim6871]

One day tourists will stay in a hotel orbiting our earth . One day tourists will stay in a hotel in Europe , Jupiter's moon .

[@venomdonut6905]

If only we could live to see that day. The first time I looked up at the stars I said "I'm gonna go there." And now we're one step closer to that being a possibility.

[@Boitumelo789]

This is how you sound when you are lying

[@brucetindal7399]

It never happened. 53 miles from the earth's surface is not Space. The Von Karman line is 62 miles from eathand is the so called begining of Space. Reports said they were travelling at 2,500 mph. That's mach2. Yet the old guy said they were at mach 3. No footage of mothership VMS Eve landing. Just the Unity. Watching by the body language you can see they are uneasy. Disney style images again looking out the window of the 'Spaceship'. You couldnt make it up. But they clearly have.

[@arrivingarriving5166]

Mach 3 is 2,301mph

[@laughn0wcryl8r74]

😂

[@jameshampton9809]

they didnt go into space.😂

[@mrelmo5164]

So I am guessing that if the earth is flat that's all they would be telling the entire world right

[@silverfoxx522]

Flat earth community all of a sudden gone very quiet😂😂

[@Zippipus]

Obscene tourism….

[@NoWindNoSunNoPower]

……fairly sure that they didn’t go to a ping pong show in Bangkok.

[@yesenochwasRIGHT]

If they are Scottish women then Im a Chinese panda!

[@hiram7474]

Physical characteristics vary in every single country. What an ignorant statement.

[@magzmoney]

🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@buskingkarma2503]

Are those woman,the first black woman in space?

[@tyswist9646]

Flat earth

[@silverfoxx522]

Flat brain😢

[@bigboomtv334]

Karma

[@seeniedk]

Edge of space? Ha

[@joshguzma9234]

It's a privilege to a person doing this kind of stuff especially if he can afford the price. But by nature, man is way behind against fowls in air travel.🙂

[@hiram7474]

Agree. I would also add behind in public transportation, especially the U.S.

[@macbook802]

They went on a mission to prove mars is flat

[@badfyrepytweed3374]

why no trans astronauts?

[@keithotter8145]

I just can't stand humanity anymore. We have a million issues to deal with here on the ground but they rather you know spend millions on these rockets just to take a view. I'm sick of the way we think as humans. It's not always about the fun especially when the world's on fire.

[@silverfoxx522]

So let's just stop trying to advance in anyway shape or form that costs money, and concentrate on forest fires.all our problems need addressing yes, but it's only human to advance. Don't hate it. And it was privately funded.

[@JoeyAlaniz]

Can you stand Branson pledging to commit $3 billion, all profits from his travel firms over the next ten years, to the reduction of global warming? How much are you contributing?

[@bobbygoud5518]

Actors 😂

[@Marksman791]

never a blackman huh 🌚

[@LewisNuke92]

Shame they came back