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A sort of yank Branson, Grant Adamson, dies at 55 in hot air balloon loses in match v power lines incident.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386153/Grant-Adamson-The-wealthy-descendant-Malibus-founders-identified-American-tourist-killed-Swiss-hot-air-balloon-crash-injured-wife-daughters.html

 

Was Malibu heir, wealthy benefactor type fella.

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SpaceShipTwo has suffered an "in-flight anomaly" in testing - or, as it's otherwise known, a crash. Reportely two people onboard with one dead:

 

http://arstechnica.c...in-test-flight/

Reports sketchy about the death at this stage. If so though, our Spaceship Roulette competition has claimed its first victim...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-01/virgin-galactic-spaceship-crashes-during-california-test-flight/5859442

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SpaceShipTwo has suffered an "in-flight anomaly" in testing - or, as it's otherwise known, a crash. Reportely two people onboard with one dead:

 

http://arstechnica.c...in-test-flight/

Reports sketchy about the death at this stage. If so though, our Spaceship Roulette competition has claimed its first victim...

http://www.abc.net.a...-flight/5859442

 

Dunno if I posted it somewhere else - like the astronauts thread - but... I read an article a while back suggesting the "spaceship roulette" problem was real. Basically pointing out that Virgin's ambitions were combining cutting edge computers and aeronautics with rocket science that wasn't keeping up. The problem being that the size of rockets in the machinery was pushing their performance to the limit. Can't Google and find it at the moment, but I'm fairly sure it was in The Guardian. As with the rocket planes 50 years ago, it might be the test pilots rather than any passengers that pay the price in development.

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SpaceShipTwo has suffered an "in-flight anomaly" in testing - or, as it's otherwise known, a crash. Reportely two people onboard with one dead:

 

http://arstechnica.c...in-test-flight/

Reports sketchy about the death at this stage. If so though, our Spaceship Roulette competition has claimed its first victim...

http://www.abc.net.a...-flight/5859442

 

Dunno if I posted it somewhere else - like the astronauts thread - but... I read an article a while back suggesting the "spaceship roulette" problem was real. Basically pointing out that Virgin's ambitions were combining cutting edge computers and aeronautics with rocket science that wasn't keeping up. The problem being that the size of rockets in the machinery was pushing their performance to the limit. Can't Google and find it at the moment, but I'm fairly sure it was in The Guardian. As with the rocket planes 50 years ago, it might be the test pilots rather than any passengers that pay the price in development.

 

Absolutely. As we've seen with the other rocket failure this week that technology is still fallible and stuck in the 1950s...

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SpaceShipTwo has suffered an "in-flight anomaly" in testing - or, as it's otherwise known, a crash. Reportely two people onboard with one dead:

 

http://arstechnica.c...in-test-flight/

Reports sketchy about the death at this stage. If so though, our Spaceship Roulette competition has claimed its first victim...

http://www.abc.net.a...-flight/5859442

 

Dunno if I posted it somewhere else - like the astronauts thread - but... I read an article a while back suggesting the "spaceship roulette" problem was real. Basically pointing out that Virgin's ambitions were combining cutting edge computers and aeronautics with rocket science that wasn't keeping up. The problem being that the size of rockets in the machinery was pushing their performance to the limit. Can't Google and find it at the moment, but I'm fairly sure it was in The Guardian. As with the rocket planes 50 years ago, it might be the test pilots rather than any passengers that pay the price in development.

 

Absolutely. As we've seen with the other rocket failure this week that technology is still fallible and stuck in the 1950s...

 

There have only been 2 rocket systems never to have a catastrophic failure (Blue Streak and Saturn V), the things are just a (barley) controlled explosion with some poor sod sitting on top!

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Safety expert says "I told you so!" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-03/virgin-wasnt-up-to-speed-and-warned-about-safety/5861512

 

Apparently they were trying a new type of rocket fuel that had only been used in ground tests before.

 

I wonder how many of the celeb passengers will get cold feet and pull out of our Spaceship Roulette competition now...

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SpaceShipTwo has suffered an "in-flight anomaly" in testing - or, as it's otherwise known, a crash. Reportely two people onboard with one dead:

 

http://arstechnica.c...in-test-flight/

Reports sketchy about the death at this stage. If so though, our Spaceship Roulette competition has claimed its first victim...

http://www.abc.net.a...-flight/5859442

 

Dunno if I posted it somewhere else - like the astronauts thread - but... I read an article a while back suggesting the "spaceship roulette" problem was real. Basically pointing out that Virgin's ambitions were combining cutting edge computers and aeronautics with rocket science that wasn't keeping up. The problem being that the size of rockets in the machinery was pushing their performance to the limit. Can't Google and find it at the moment, but I'm fairly sure it was in The Guardian. As with the rocket planes 50 years ago, it might be the test pilots rather than any passengers that pay the price in development.

 

Absolutely. As we've seen with the other rocket failure this week that technology is still fallible and stuck in the 1950s...

 

There have only been 2 rocket systems never to have a catastrophic failure (Blue Streak and Saturn V), the things are just a (barley) controlled explosion with some poor sod sitting on top!

 

So, rather appropriately, that's a description that would also fit losing your virginity!

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Branson lashes out at media. He claims the fuel tank did not explode but that a feathering system might have deployed too early: http://www.abc.net.a...branson/5864110

Leaving pilot error as a possible cause and - shock horror - suggesting that much maligned spacecraft might be, like, safe. Not exactly convinced of that, myself. Have any DLer's, like, bought a ticket?

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Richard Branson is still intending to take his family up to show he has confidence in his toy: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/531222/Sir-Richard-Branson-Virgin-Galactic-family-space

 

On a side note, I first heard about this on the news last night. When I typed "richard branson family" into Google just now to find an article, the search engine now presents a list of all his relatives above the actual search results. The search engine just got that little bit more intrusive...

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But the next space plane won't be ready till 2016 so you can scrub him off your major risk list for now.

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Another high profile 'helmet saved my life' nobber.

 

You landed on your face and shoulder, you said it yourself Dicky.

 

 

/end cyclist rant

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On 01/11/2014 at 05:38, Davey Jones' Locker said:

Reports sketchy about the death at this stage. If so though, our Spaceship Roulette competition has claimed its first victim...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-01/virgin-galactic-spaceship-crashes-during-california-test-flight/5859442

Our Celebrity Spaceship Roulette competition will be starting up again soon:

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-06/virgin-galactic-conducts-first-powered-flight-of-new-spaceship/9626706

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The 67 year old Virgin is in training to blast off into space within months: https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/26/sir-richard-branson-is-training-to-become-an-astronaut-and-planning-a-journey-into-space-7578619/

 

If the training doesn't kill him, maybe the flight will. Just let us know the celebrity passenger list in advance, Dicky love....

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Spaceship Roulette is back on! Not Branson this time but rather Elon Musk"s mob are about to announce the name of their first passenger on their trip around the moon/suicide journey:

 

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-passenger/spacex-signs-first-private-passenger-to-fly-around-the-moon-idUKKCN1LU04A

 

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8 minutes ago, Davey Jones' Locker said:

Spaceship Roulette is back on! Not Branson this time but rather Elon Musk"s mob are about to announce the name of their first passenger on their trip around the moon/suicide journey:

 

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-passenger/spacex-signs-first-private-passenger-to-fly-around-the-moon-idUKKCN1LU04A

 

 

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“Find out who’s flying and why on Monday, September 17,” SpaceX said in a tweet on Thursday.

 

Find out who's going on the shortlist ten seconds later...

 

 

 

Apparently the favourite is this guy.

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17 minutes ago, msc said:

 

 

Find out who's going on the shortlist ten seconds later...

 

 

 

Apparently the favourite is this guy.

 

A theme team might do spectacularly well that year........

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25 minutes ago, Grim Up North said:

 

A theme team might do spectacularly well that year........

 

Imagine the launch is January 1st. Twenty celebs.

 

Shortest DDP race in history.

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