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lluicndia — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:15:35 GMT

These guys just can't help but to always promote themselves on the back of Zero-G and X Prize's accomplishments....Nothing like self promotion for Richard and gang!

Well....I guess its all good for the cause...right? It will be nice when they actually do something themselves for once that benefits the space community other than just talking about it.

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Penny Ocala, Fla. — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:12:29 GMT

Congrats Steven!! Way to go!! Would love to have that experience too!I wish that it was possible to take a trip in space now.I have watched the space program since the beginning and have never lost my love for it.Keep up the good work guys!!!

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Crudely Wrott, Dayton, OH — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:16:27 GMT

I get the feeling that guys like Branson and Rutan and Hawking read the same stories as boys that I read. You know, the weird Science Fiction that was said by some to rot your brain and distract you from "more important things"? That is to say that the way they are going about this business harks back to Heinlein and Clarke, Vance and Anderson.

Stories about some yahoos who got their hands on enough money and decided to do Something Big. Something that had either been only talked about or something that had gotten caught up in committee or bogged down by funding legislation. And they KNEW that they could do it better and then they went and did it.

They did it in a way that could be appreciated by the average guy, argued over loudly by political shills, dissected by theorists, duplicated by engineers, hacked by youngsters, condemned by priests, co opted as an advertising hook, vilified by some pols and embraced by another, and endlessly editorialized. How 'bout that? Something for everyone!

Oh, did I mention, appreciated by the average guy?

I ate those stories up forty years ago, even though by then many of them were themselves forty years old. I am tickled to death that I am seeing those stories come to (Real) life during my lifetime and at the beginning of my grand children's.

The faster this happens, the more of it I'll get to see. And the more confident I will be in the future of my fellow man. Many thanks to these pioneers. May each of their names one day be bestowed on a fast ship, or maybe on a place. A place far away and not yet known.

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Jim — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:42:02 GMT

I just want to applaud the visionaries who do this stuff (Rutan, Ansari, Branson). They are blazing trails and I think they should do their best to actively promote these efforts.

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Jason Merrell — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:42:28 GMT

I'm absolutely thrilled with the publicity. Anything to keep people interested in space flight.

It'll be nice to have kids wanting to be astronauts again. Math, Science, Physics, Aeronautics...

Frankly, I don't care how it happens. I don't care if Branson makes a trillion dollars. I don't care if the launch vehicles have "MICROSOFT" logos on them. I don't care if the next flag planted on the Moon is a company flag, not a national flag.

Just GET. OUT. THERE.

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Hunter, Jacksonville Fl — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:59:58 GMT

Oh Ok. Then why don't you go in your backyard with no one else's help and noone else's previous technology and build a spaceship. Let's see how long it takes you to build a spaceship from scratch. Yeah, don't use anyone else's ideas or theories either, because then you'd be riding on the backs of all these other companies. ARE YOU SERIOUS? Why can't you just be happy for someone? They are doing more to benefit the space community than you are sitting here trying feebly to berate them. Go get an aeronautical physics degree and then design your own form of energy, and your own aerodynamic designs, and your own light composite metals to make your ship, and do your own testing and fly it yourself for the first time. Then you can tell other people they are unoriginal and that you are benefiting the community way more.

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Garth, Washington, DC — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:01:14 GMT

You quote a price of $250,000 for a flight. That is 25% higher than all the other citations of a Virgin Galactic flight that I have seen at $200,000. Do you have an indication of a pending price increase?

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Momodoro — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:29:25 GMT

Excuse me, but Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites won the X-Prize and are working with Virgin Galactic.

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Bert Kinyon — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:52:03 GMT

Our recent discovery of a "new earth" re-enforces the need for us to reach out into space every way we can.

Who knows when a natural or man made calamity will end our existence here on earth.

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Kansas City — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:07:24 GMT

They did do something...They started commercial space travel. They've got over 200 paying customers. They've got a spaceport under construction in New Mexico. They've already been to space 3 times. Now they need to make it a viable business, one step at a time, Geez! Branson is all about self promotion, that is why he is where he is today! What did you do today?

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Alan Boyle — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:21:29 GMT

Ouch, Garth, you're right ... Some other companies are quoting $250,000 for their first flights, and for some reason that figure must have stuck in my mind. I'm almost getting to the point that you can chalk it up to old age, but not yet. Sorry about the brain hiccup. I've fixed the reference.

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Alan Dean Foster — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:21:07 GMT

Question: do flyers on VG accrue frequent flier miles for vertical as well as horizontal travel?

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Charlie S., West Palm Beach, FL — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:07:02 GMT

Well, it's all fine and dandy until someone loses an eye. Actually, I'm worried stiff for all of those persons who are signing up to fly in SpaceShip 2. I pray that all works out well during these flights. However, given the danger of this type of endeavor, the commercial spacefaring enterprise could all come crashing down -- literally -- if, God forbid, something goes horribly wrong. I'll certainly have my heart in my throat as I watch these folks rocket skyward. And, even though I'm not religious, I'll say a prayer for them all.

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Gerard Pereira, Fairfield, Iowa — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:50:47 GMT

What a magnificent age of scientific and technological accomplishment we live in!!! I am very happy and proud to be alive at this time and will be eager to visit space when the flights become available for the less wealthy among us. My warmest congratulations to history's most brilliant Aeronautical genius Burt Rutan, his visionary investor Paul Allen, and to forward thinking entrepeneur Sir Richard Branson for making it possible for us all to visit space. My sincere gratitude also to Peter Diamandis for his tremendous initiative in creating the X-Prize to stimulate the necessary innovation.

Suborbital trip? Certainly for me! I am rearing to go!!! A trip to orbit for a few days or weeks? I would love the adventure!!!

I dreamed of going into space all my life. Starting at age 8, I read and devoured many science fiction books, and every non-fiction book I could find about Aerospace and Space Exploration. I have also avidly followed all the Gemini and Apollo missions and Space Shuttle missions too. In school at age 10, I was the kid who was called upon by my science teacher to explain space exploration and aerospace technology topics to my class. I still continue to read and remain informed on all the latest exciting developments that are unfolding even as I write this.

I am in good physical condition and would be interested in going on a trip to help scientists in their research on the effects of Zero-G and high G forces on people like me who are not professional astronauts. What a nice way for me to make my small contribution to humanity’s future in space!!!

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Frank Glover Rochester, NY — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:59:42 GMT

Charlie, this is why we have test flights. The first Boeing 747 to get daylight under its wheels in 1970 didn't have paying passengers, either...

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Susie Carter, Anchorage, AK — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:14:12 GMT

I have to agree that when I look up at the stars I can't help but wish I could be on that guest list....I admire those who do anything towards getting us up and out there. That pioneering spirit is what lifts us as surely as any energy source.

Susie Carter, President-AlaskaMen Magazine

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Erik Hoffman, Carlsbad, CA — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:28:58 GMT

Scaled has the right people to make this happen, and Branson shares the vision. Virgin Galactic is just the beginning, and I would be on flight #1 if I had the opportunity.

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doe joh — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:36:48 GMT

We'll We'll We'll, I look forward to see the first videos and pictures of "anomalies" "U.F.O" That NASA will no longer be able to photo shop out of pictures or edit out of video per the pentagons "demands", or be able to control what people talk about, as these will not be U.S Gov Employees on these flights. We are surely inching towards, the fact that we've had visitors coming here for thousands of years.