Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has kicked off its first-ever all-tourist trip into the upper atmosphere, but not space.
  • mawp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    .3 miles off of astronaut wings and a hell of a lot of money for the privilege. Oof.

    • stepintomydojo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      They’ve since corrected it:

      Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly stated that the max apogee of the flight was 49.7 miles. In fact, the VSS Unity reached a max altitude of 55 miles.