Virgin Galactic launches 1st mother-daughter team and 1st Olympian to space on 2nd commercial flight (video)

[Admin]

Virgin Galactic flew its second-ever commercial mission today (Aug. 10), a flight that made history in multiple ways.

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[Icepilot]

For the love of humanity, could we stop this incessant "1st" (insert racial/sexual/age category here) to space drivel? Now we're going to include sports? Pffft!

 

[Brad]

It's amazing how unimpressive this really is. It took 20 years to develop a rocket powered plane that doesn't actually go to space for 4 minutes. Sorry but given the advances in commercial space flight this is nothing more than an expensive amusement park ride.