“What we’re incredibly excited about is that this flight not only demonstrated the technology, because it was pretty much picture-perfect, it also demonstrated all the way through the flight from launch, up to space, and back down to splashdown how incredibly gentle it is. That is part of making it accessible.”
Source: Space Perspective co-founder Jane Poynter, commenting as they have announced that billionaire Richard Branson will co-pilot the first crewed flight test of its commercial ‘space balloon’ as early as next year. The vessel completed its initial uncrewed test in September.
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