** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

Massive endeavour to get Sir Richard Branson to the edge of space, yet they couldn't budget for HD cameras that actually functioned properly during the live feed, what should have been a huge spectacle turned into a huge dud.
 
norm said:
Massive endeavour to get Sir Richard Branson to the edge of space, yet they couldn't budget for HD cameras that actually functioned properly during the live feed, what should have been a huge spectacle turned into a huge dud.
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So they lost the live feed - I was watching the tennis - at what point did they lose it and when did it come back?

Edit: Looks like they lost live pictures from inside and outside prior to reaching their maximum height, with pictures returning on the descent.
 
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Eddie said:
Edit: Looks like they lost live pictures from inside and outside prior to reaching their maximum height, with pictures returning on the descent.
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It came back on the descent at around 25k Ft which is pretty poor and even then it wasn't a good stable image at all.
 
I honestly don't know why they had a band playing during the live feed. If I wanted to watch music, I would have chosen to have done so, but instead I just turned off as soon as the live feed turned to Khalid.
 
Apparently, America does class it as being in space, anything above 80km I think it is and they're considered astronauts :p
 
MissChief said:
Just imagine what you can do if you're a billionaire who pays no UK tax and pleaded with the UK Government to bail out his airline instead of using his own money, all while blowing millions, if not hundreds of millions on this.
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He didn't get a bailout though, he used his own money plus other investors, so problem solved.
 
Feek said:
Nothing more than passengers really.
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Agreed there should be some new designation? Like astro tourist. If space tourism eventually takes off, pun not intended, does every person who goes up get an astronaut badge and the astronaut title granted to them?

Astronaut should be something earned through missions, training, education, and finally going into orbit as a qualified, technical member of a crew responsible for a spacecraft.

The crew flying the tourists to space would be astronauts, the tourists themselves, no.
 
Agreed, at the very least they should orbit, rather than go up, 'almost' into space, and then back down again..

Otherwise, surely we are all probably pilots just for flying somewhere on holiday...
 
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