Richard Branson: We owe it to test pilot to continue Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo
Excerpt from smh.com.au
The Tony Blair grin was gone but Richard Branson was unbowed by disaster when he appeared on American breakfast television on Monday morning.
He vowed his program to hurl paying customers into the sky to enjoy a few minutes of weightlessness at the very edge of space would go ahead despite the disaster that killed test pilot Michael Alsbury high above the Mojave Desert. He owed it to the pilot, he said.
Lauer himself homed in on a question many have discussed since the accident. Test flight and space travel has always been dangerous, are the risks worth it when the object is an expensive thrill ride rather than the advancement of science?
“Absolutely it is worth the risks,” said Branson without hesitation, adding though that his program was about more than the $200,000 space flight that is being marketed to rich adventurers.
He said it was not just about giving the “millions of people who would like to” a chance to see space, but about launching ”massive arrays” of satellites and mastering sub-orbital flight for passengers here on Earth. “It is a grand program,” he said.
Not everyone is convinced, and it helps to have some understanding of the technology Branson’s Virgin Galactic was using to understand why.
To reach space, Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft was to have been hauled 15 kilometres into the air by another aircraft before it was released, fired its own rockets and reached an altitude of 100 kilometres, the outside boundary of Earth’s atmosphere.
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