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Originally Posted by dave thompson
Regardless of the economic/political/personal machinations and hand-wringing, this is a pretty damn great accomplishment. I watched it live and cried.
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virgin galactic has already done this flight profile many times.
whats the new "accomplishment" for today's flight -- a billionaire ride-along?
hell, soyuz has already done that...and gone further to orbit and dock with ISS.
the virgin galactic team has indeed done a fair bit of innovation getting to this point -- props to the engineers, but today was just a publicity stunt.