Bezos and Branson didn’t even go to space.

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Yep, what that Bezos flight did used 1% of the energy it takes to get into orbit. That means a much smaller rocket, arguably not even getting into space (I think the space shuttle and station were 150-200 miles up not 62), no need to engineer for reentry, etc.

Same with Virgin. This was 65 year old tech glorified because "it's got electrolytes and stuff...I mean it's privatized so it's automatically better"

Media went on a 2 week campaign to get us to worship these 3 billionaires over some bullshyt.
 
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Bezos went 5x higher than a U-2

the sky turns dark at like 70,000 feet. The were like a little over. And Bezos only went up less than 100k feet higher than world skydive record holder.

the only reason why they were weightless for 3 minutes is because of the free fall back down, not because they were in space.
 
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the sky turns dark at like 70,000 feet. The were like a little over. And Bezos only went up less than 100k feet higher than world skydive record holder.

the only reason why they were weightless for 3 minutes is because of the free fall back down, not because they were in space.

The capsule reached 351,000 ft. (66 miles)
 

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the sky turns dark at like 70,000 feet. The were like a little over. And Bezos only went up less than 100k feet higher than world skydive record holder.

the only reason why they were weightless for 3 minutes is because of the free fall back down, not because they were in space.

I was going to clown you but if what you say is true then yeah, they didn’t go to outer space. Satellites are in the Exosphere and not even technically in space. 70,000 feet would have only put them in the Stratosphere.

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The capsule reached 351,000 ft. (66 miles)

If that’s the case, that’s about 106 kilometers only putting them in the Thermosphere.
 
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Funding R&D for space exploration is a money vacuum -- even for the richest man in the world. So the smart strategy is to commercialize it somehow and use the money from that to fund R&D. The space tourism BS is the perfect plan for that.
 
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