Trouble in Branson-land
Rumors are flying that some of the individuals who gave Virgin Galactic deposits for space tourism flights on SpaceShipTwo are demanding their money back.
It appears that the most recent delay, revealed by Branson on David Letterman, is the cause.
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Rumors are flying that some of the individuals who gave Virgin Galactic deposits for space tourism flights on SpaceShipTwo are demanding their money back.
It appears that the most recent delay, revealed by Branson on David Letterman, is the cause.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
And one of the last threads of the once vaunted “space tourism” industry unravels.
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Branson was never serious.
And there will never be a space tourism industry until passengers have someplace to go once up there.
If they just want to experience weightlessness they can just rent a flight on the Vomit comet. Its cheaper faster and runs every day.
>..And there will never be a space tourism industry until passengers have someplace to go once up there…
If true, that pretty much craters most attempts at commercial space.