Commerical Space Flights
 

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this is a amazing huh?:eek:

that's pretty cool I read about this once before, but one thing I still wonder is... how safe is it?

Safety would have been one of the major issues for such flights and in these coming two years their main focus would be on this aspect. Although it would some years to these flights become affordable to common people, but its very good. Now we would see people setting all sorts of records in these flights

yea it is supposed to start in 2 yrs but I imagine it will be very expensive and only for the rich. It will probably be decades before this is made into a thing for the average joe.

That's why I said that I would be mostly a record setting trip of various kinds during initial years i.e. rich people getting married, oraganising events in these flights which will always get it into the news. After that some day would come that it would be available to average people and there will be not such interest in mentioning about this.

This is pure fantasy, we will never see common people on commercial space flights due to the expense, the training they would have to go through to adjust to the atmospheric condtions, and the threat on world security if space terrorism is attempted. We would see flying cars before seeing commercial space flights and even that is slim to none.

I don't know about that buddy. I'm sure that's what everyone said back when commercial airplanes were becoming more common, though I agree with you in the sense that it'll be expensive as hell, and probably not for a bit.

As for the threat of terrorism, anything is vulnerable to a terrorist attack. So to limit something due to a potential terrorist attack would be pointless.

Though I'd love to have a flying car!(Back to the Future ftw!!! :p) I think that commerical flights to space would come first. Mainly because flying cars means that driving laws would have to be changed, roads would probably have to be modified, special gas/recharge stations for the flying cars have to be developed, and I'm guess that once cars stars flying, it'll be havoc to have both flying and nonflying cars traveling around together. Everything that I just said would have to become very commonplace.

I agree wasab. Also there really isn't a need for fllying cars, helicopters or private jets fill the role just fine

I don't know; the Concorde had a maximum speed of Mach 2.2 (~ 1,450 mph) & a ceiling of 60,000 feet; great at cruising at 56,000 @ 2.02. Then there was the Tupolev Tu-144; ceiling @ 59,000 with a maximum speed of Mach 2.35 (~1,550 mph). Both of those are retired already due to expenses and the overall aeronautical difficulties associated.


Of course, I'm still mighty impressed with the record of the SR-71 "Blackbird." It has a ceiling of 85,000 feet with a max speed gauged @ Mach 3.2+ (~2,200 mph). But still...to have an aircraft going like the X-15 carrying a bunch of passengers does seem rather exotic. The X-15 could get up to 4,500 mph and got to 67 miles in altitude. Two more years, huh?

Personally, I think it's the elites' way of ducking out on that Mayan prophecy of 2012. You pay your $ 200,000 and take off; so far so good. But what are they going to do when they try to land and there ain't no more planet? Figure that one out hot shots.