By Amnon Govrin
Virgin Galactic is arguably the leading private space tourism company, having actually built their suborbital craft and carrier and having flown them both. Their web site and publications all look taken from a sci-fi movie, with weightlessness touted as a wonder worth $200,000. One of the slogans Virgin Galactic uses (in the training page) is “Feel the Freedom of Zero G.”
However, there’s a dirty little secret that no one over at Virgin Galactic is talking about…
Read all about it on http://www.spacepirations.com/2010/05/virgin-galactic-dirty-little-secret.html
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Tim,
Thanks for your comment, I appreciate any and every opinion.
As I wrote in the post, I based it on two testimonials, one from a personal experience of a fighter-jet pilot and another from The Space Show with Erik Seedhouse.
As you hopefully realize, I am fully engaged in getting into micro-gravity and suborbital flights, and the post title was my way to induce a little interest and controversy. I respect Virgin Galactic as an innovator and pioneer in suborbital flights, no offense intended.