Bezo's Blue Origin suborbital launch test in less than 10....

[glhs837]

tourism rocket, pops the capsule off, which heads just high enough to qualify as "space". Booster lands itself.

 

[Sneakers]

Very cool.

 

[glhs837]

I mean for $250K, you get about 5-7 minutes of freefall anda view only some X-plane pilots and real astronauts get to see. They plan on flying paying passengers this year. No idea what the SpaceX private mission costs per person yet, except that it's for a week, I think, and you have to pay NASA 30K a night for your "hots and a cot" at the ISS.

 

[Gilligan]

I mean for $250K, you get about 5-7 minutes of freefall anda view only some X-plane pilots and real astronauts get to see.

Sneakers can afford fun things like that. Me?..not so much.

 

[Sneakers]

Sneakers can afford fun things like that. Me?..not so much.

Flight booked.

Also ordered a gross of barf bags.

 

[glhs837]

While this is cool, and you certainly get a much more panoramic view, you don't get to relive that whole X-15 deal like Bransons "space" tourist deal. I mean, for me, an aviation ordnance type, being dropped off a wing and launched with a rocket like a like a missile....well, that's a pretty huge draw...