More SpaceShipTwo Details

Anonymous Coward from Manitoba writes "BBC news is reporting more details about Burt Rutan's proposed SpaceShipTwo. Apparently the new flyer will include five to eight passenger seats and have the 'same diameter crew cabin as a Gulfstream V business jet'. It will fly much higher than SpaceShip One - up to '135-140 km' that will permit an additional 90 seconds of microgravity. This will be important, since 'we want this roller coaster-type bar that you fold out of the way and you can float around'. They are also planning to 'have the option of landing in a different place from where they took off'. I can't wait until we can ride SpaceShipThree across the Atlantic in 20 minutes!"

Comments

an extra 90 seconds

[roseblood]

... my husband could take a hint from spaceship two.

Re:an extra 90 seconds

[Anonymous Coward]

If he needs to go up 135-140kms i can understand why he'd want to be out of there as soon as he could be.

Too rich for my taste

[wcitechnologies]

Until they get somewhere in the neighboorhood of SpaceShipTwentyEight, its still gonna be too expensive for me!

Translation please?

[Filiks]

"This experience is going to have very few restrictions on what you can do because these payloads are doing it for fun and every person has a different idea of what fun is.

Floating in space (Ansari X-Prize)
The X-prize vision is about to be realised
"Does that mean that some guy and his girl might want to take the whole ship? OK!"

Is that a euphemism for zero gravity sex? It'll be one of the few times when being quick is actually good! Also, with presumably multi-year waiting lists, it'll take performance anxiety to new high.