Will You Travel to Space?

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The private space-race has been on for a while now. The attention has been on Space-X and Blue Origin with their reusable rockets. But there’s one private space program that’s been doing things a little differently. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic isn’t building rockets at all - it’s building spaceships. And I got to sit down and talk to him about it.
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Amid the loud rivalry of between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, amid the extravagance of self-landing rockets and … other displays, Virgin Galactic achieved something no other private space company ever has - in 2014 it became the first to put an actual person in space on board its SpaceShipOne - turning its pilot into the world’s first private astronaut. And then, on February 22nd, the VSS Unity, reached space in a sub-orbital flight carrying the first-ever passenger-astronaut on a private spacecraft.
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@sylvainbougerel6272 5 лет назад

Matt, your show remains one of the highest quality content I find around the Internet. Happy to see Sir Branson thinks the same.

@falahati 5 лет назад

Nice exclusive interview. Thank you. Now tell us how you ended up on the island.

@MrHauerManuel 5 лет назад

Richard L *fights like a cow*

@slusher545 5 лет назад

was looking for Dr. No's layer

@freezatron 5 лет назад

do you mean Dr No's lair ??? :)

@slusher545 5 лет назад

oops. was distracted thinking about Ursula Andress. @@freezatron

@S3jr4 5 лет назад

Previosly on the Lost ...

@genkidamatrunks6759 5 лет назад

Super Villain checklist: Private island (volcano optional) ✅ Unlimited funds✅ Overly ambitious goal- I know what's best for humanity.✅ Take over worldwide broadcasts to inform populace of said goal. [in progress]

@JohnyBuzzkillKidd 5 лет назад

Work with the CIA to construct an "aid concert" as a cover for a governmental overthrow (however you do the tick thing)

@nolanwestrich2602 5 лет назад

Does Elon Musk or Google have a private island?

@KafshakTashtak 5 лет назад

@@nolanwestrich2602Elon musk is hitting for a secret underground lair (or a bat cave), hence the Boring Company.

@davidroddini1512 5 лет назад

SAHM most companies are boring. They don’t call them board (bored) rooms for nothing.

@the11382 5 лет назад

Evil plan speech [ ]

@TirarADeguello 5 лет назад

You did a wonderful job putting this together. I wish that more people could see this episode.

@StefanIson123 5 лет назад

I have to say I think this is the best channel on RU-vid. I may not understand everything (or sometimes barely anything) but I always learn something! And when I go back and re-watch older videos I notice how I understand much more every time. This channel, and your amazing rhetoric and extraordinary ability in science communication keeps making me smarter and more knowledgeable all the time! A huge Thank You to the the entire team behind this amazing channel!

@lucasthompson1650 5 лет назад

Transatlantic flights used to cost anywhere from $300 to $500, it sounds like Sir Richard or whoever informed him on historical air travel costs is erroneously doing the "constant dollar" conversion twice.

@bilboshaggins3966 5 лет назад

I mean, he's been operating transatlantic flights for a while now...

@TheGunmanChannel 5 лет назад

I really like the Q&A you've been doing at the end of each episode.

@richardfarland 5 лет назад

Self-indulgent vanity project benefitting the few. Justifying it with things like environmental and eventual trickle-down economic/technological benefits is nerd-satiating sophistry.

@JeremyNasmith 5 лет назад

@Richard Marriner Yeah, but isn't that how all out-of-the-box projects got justified? I mean, freeze-dried ice cream might not justify the expense of a space program, but how many countless other innovative and useful technologies trickled down to us? GPS wouldn't work without the space programs which launched those satalites. Telecommunications between countries. Weather prediction. Even Velcro! Those didn't benefit millions of people? Even if the only benefit was a deeper understanding of our solar system, it'd be enough. Every dollar spent on NASA has eventually paid off immensely. I sleep on a memory-foam mattress... I'm glad Neil and Buzz went to the moon. A waste of money it is not. And now, you, Mr. taxpayer doesn't need to even carry the burden as commercial companies are taking up the torch where NASA, ESA, JAXA, etc. leave off.

@jeffvader811 5 лет назад

In addition tow hat Jeremy said - its private money anyway, so why do you care what he spends it on?

@lewisleslie2821 4 года назад

Technological progress is going to happen because of humans, and much of it will be driven by desire or greed or vanity, all very human flaws.

@NewMessage 5 лет назад

There's no reason to vacation in space. Sure, the restaurant at the end of the universe is good.. but there's no atmosphere.

@JakeFoster01 5 лет назад

wow

@tempname8263 5 лет назад

@@azraela9 Dude, that was _my_ universe that exploded because of gas leak. Have some god damn decency

@justfasial01 5 лет назад

@@tempname8263 lmao

@gibranhenriquedesouza2843 5 лет назад

LOL!

@fffUUUUUU 5 лет назад

@WilliamBoothClibborn 5 лет назад

We need to hear the story on how on earth you got on that island.

@davidroddini1512 5 лет назад

Will B-C definitely. How does one just happen to find themselves on a billionaire’s island?!

@luvkit1014 5 лет назад

What is the probability this was shot during the buffet break of the afternoon orgy. 😂

@thedutchflamingo9973 5 лет назад

@@luvkit1014 bUt tHeN WhY iS iT cAlLeD *vIrGin* GaLActIC

@briandiehl9257 5 лет назад

He was probably just invited to do this interview

@SimonClarkstone 5 лет назад

Or, better: how *off* Earth he got on that island.

@jordanschriver4228 11 месяцев назад

"Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic isn't building rockets at all--it's building spaceships." Benny from the LEGO Movie has entered the chat: "SPACESHIP!!!"

@acerimmer2000 5 лет назад

Why does this sound like the description from moonraker? Bond villain on a private island sends flying spaceships into orbit.

@bigdickpornsuperstar 5 лет назад

All you need is Richard Kiel and you're good to go. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(James_Bond)

@no_more_free_nicks 5 лет назад

I prepared to watch new episode 5 times to understand half of it. You guys make it too easy!

@MrWorld-hc5rs 5 лет назад

This episode of PBS Space Time is brought to you by Virgin Galactic - spend your summer holidays in space.

@querywizard 5 лет назад

Why so cynical? Virgin.. actually built a space ship and their approach is a bit different. I am glad to learn what's going on and wonder if their approach will be successful.

@LeftPinkie 5 лет назад

It's going to be a very short & expensive vacay. I would get more pleasure out of burning my $200K & then rolling around in the ashes.

@MrWorld-hc5rs 5 лет назад

@@querywizard cynical? absolutely not. I'm so stoked about this that I've made them this free ad.

@Viperzka 5 лет назад

@@LeftPinkie Have fun with that, I'm going to be an astronaut. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@no_more_free_nicks 5 лет назад

Is space a virgin?

@mixiekins 5 лет назад

It was amazing to not only see but touch these amazing crafts at EAA Airventure last year. Hard to imagine in that moment what it would be like to ride one. Rutan designs are so iconic, too!

@paigetucker1124 2 года назад

This was my favorite episode of Space Time!!!👏🏻 Well done. I look forward to watching more and learning the story of how you ended up on the island.

@GeordiLaForgery 5 лет назад

In the UK he makes train travel so expensive the average person can't afford it. The same Sir that is trying to privatise healthcare and sued the NHS for contracts.

@MrHeythere555 5 лет назад

Fuck Richard Branson

@watcherofwatchers 5 лет назад

You sound like someone who doesn't understand economics and who just wants free stuff given to them by other people who earned it.

@MrHeythere555 5 лет назад

@@watcherofwatchers anyone that parrots"basic economics" can be instantly identified as a moron. As for your idea of earning money you didn't work for how about looking up the labour theory of value. Making money from work you didn't do is literally how capitalism functions you reprobate.

@kiyoaki1985 5 лет назад

Richard Branson is a piece of shit and I really wish this show wouldn't have such a boner for billionaires like him and Musk and their bullshit.

@bilbobaggins761 5 лет назад

Exactly! but it's the current trend to idolise billionaires, billionaires who love to give there political opinions as if there purely based on morals but it's not there just protecting there economic interests.

@Zartren 5 лет назад

This does look great for sub-orbital flights. The issue with using the same air launch method for orbital flights is that the amount of energy required to reach orbital velocity is so great that the system needs to scale up significantly. The engineering challenges of such a system on a much larger scale likely far outweigh any efficiency gain of launching from a slightly higher altitude.

@MrGonzonator 5 лет назад

Your show is definitely making me smarter. For the first time ever this week I actually understood everything you said.

@jemmerx 5 лет назад

This is my favorite channel/show on RU-vid or otherwise. All episodes are good, but sometimes, you get an episode that just makes you feeling like you are soaring (no pun intended). This is one of those episodes. Cheers Matt and the whole PBS team!

@Someone-cr8cj 5 лет назад

I have to say that you and Richard Brandson look VERY similar

@TheRazzaManazza 5 лет назад

It's just time travel. No biggie.

@jonathonessex2555 5 лет назад

I swear they could be distant kin.

@massimookissed1023 5 лет назад

If it stops Bezos taking over the galaxy, I don't care.

@tgmtf5963 5 лет назад

they are thicc haired

@Alorand 5 лет назад

Wait, the host of PBS Space Time is Sir Richard Branson's long lost son? 11:30 - I do kind of see the resemblance.

@MB-xo2lx 5 лет назад

Ha-ha-ha! They really look like relatives, but that's because of their haircuts and beards.👍👍👍

@Jimmy-B- 5 лет назад

Probably one of them ha

@manduul.bakhdal 5 лет назад

Matthew is actually a time traveller, so it is possible that Richard is his son.

@mickobrien3156 5 лет назад

They both clearly have Neanderthal genes. Poor Matt.. he's like a Cro-Magnon man.

@natedunn51 5 лет назад

The noses are different, but otherwise yeah.

@jmantson 5 лет назад

I've been following PBS Space Time for a few months now because I my Master's Project in theology is a spoken word symphony that deals with big questions like where do we and the Universe come from, why are we here and where are we and the Universe going etc from a scientific and theological perspective. So, first, thank you for this massive inspiration for that! I will be using a lot of ideas from this channel. But I also just found out about PBS Sound Field a few days ago and man, it's also so great! Just watched their video before this one and it definitely gave me more inspiration for my project. Thanks so much for what y'all are doing! Keep on going!

@RichardFanders 5 лет назад

Amazing that you got an interview with Richard!

@andrewmorgan5022 5 лет назад

Congratulations on the interview lad. Space Time for the win 😝

@TheExoplanetsChannel 5 лет назад

Nice. So, SpaceX and Blue Origin for the rockets, Virgin Galactic for the spaceships and *AI Space Factory for the houses on habitable exoplanets*

@PabloMartinez-kx9yq 5 лет назад

There we go !

@oldbootz 5 лет назад

I love how Branson dresses. Like me at the beach :)

@toamastar 5 лет назад

it was awesome to see you got such a great interview!! Lovely to see Sir Richard give up some of his time for you :)

@LeftPinkie 5 лет назад

Awww... that's so nice that he can talk about trying to save the planet while sipping mai tai's from his private tropical island.

@castiron2844 5 лет назад

It is nice.

@Ryukachoo 5 лет назад

Hmm "Making spaceships" is a bit of a stretch, it's more like a parabolic fall-ship

@manictiger 5 лет назад

Space darts!

@michaelburke750 5 лет назад

manictiger ohh shit! I remember lawn darts... 🤕

@thstroyur 5 лет назад

Spaceplanes be different than spacecannonballs, even though the basicest phys be the same

@nebula-not-a-website 5 лет назад

Falling with style though ;)

@simplychaotic66 5 лет назад

Shut up, nerd. Get some friends.

@nathanscottshoemaker2554 5 лет назад

I'll agree with that, as a good vantage for looking back.

@FlyingGerbyl 5 лет назад

I have one, huge problem from this video: Passengers of a sea vessel or airplane who are not part of the crew are just that... “passengers”. People aren’t astronauts just because they are in a spacecraft in space. A Google search clearly explains that an astronaut is some on who is trained to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Passengers are not astronauts!

@nafrost2787 5 лет назад

PBS space time you are the best, thank you so much, I wish I could be there tomorrow but I don’t live in the US, please do a livestream or video or something like that.

@clarknova1567 5 лет назад

Nafrost VPN my friend. Lots of ways to get around censorship due to region.

@polygondwanaland8390 5 лет назад

"the attention has been on SpaceX and BlueOrigin with their actual rockets that actually go to space" Fixed that for you

@redbeam_ 4 года назад

well, BlueOrigin has yet to actually achieve orbit

@ScottJWaldron 5 лет назад

That's interesting to see they are getting closer to actually offering the service! Great video. I would like to do that someday.

@0mn1vore 5 лет назад

Reminds me of Gibson's `Red Star, Winter Orbit' -- where they lifted rockets as far up as a balloon could take it, *then* launch the rocket.

@feynstein1004 5 лет назад

What a time to be alive indeed. I wish I could live forever. But in a universe where even atoms are denied eternity, what hope do I have? 😔

@msg6214 5 лет назад

Feynstein 100 ..... well said.

@feynstein1004 5 лет назад

@MSG 621 Thanks. Hopefully, we'll figure out some way to beat the system :)

@nevermind-he8ni 5 лет назад

Eternity is a long time- especially towards the end. Be careful what you wish for.

@feynstein1004 5 лет назад

@never mind I can handle it :)

@feynstein1004 5 лет назад

@Peter Connell Same logic. If you'd live a thousand years, why not make that two thousand? Or ten? Why not a million years? Or more specifically, why stop at all?

@HienNguyenHMN 5 лет назад

Calling passengers in craft that kiss space "astronauts" is akin to calling passengers of a plane "pilots." Maybe "astrotourist" is te better term?

@my3dviews 5 лет назад

Lots of astronauts on the space shuttle or soyuz never flew the spacecraft either.

@HienNguyenHMN 5 лет назад

@@my3dviews Not the point. They're actually in space: they're living there, they're encircling the Earth. (They're not visiting space.)

@my3dviews 5 лет назад

@@HienNguyenHMN What about Alan Shepard after his sub-orbital flight that lasted about 15 minutes? Was he not an astronaut?

@briandiehl9257 5 лет назад

@@my3dviews "An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft."

@rahul_sadhu 5 лет назад

awesome ..these videos inspire me a lot -from a regular viewer since before Sir Matt started hosting but too lazy to comment. This video finally made me comment something.

@Timboyxxx 5 лет назад

Great interview!

@GrantGryczan 5 лет назад

This is amazing. My first thought is of what flat Earthers will say to excuse it once space flight is commercial.

@richrichy3015 5 лет назад

They would say that everyone that goes is brainwashed with a brainwashing serum and that they really just took a flight in a VR simulator. Lol

@josephelston4101 5 лет назад

I know this isn't the right forum but seeing this man on this channel makes me incensed

@kedarmantri4860 5 лет назад

Now this was an awesome episode. WOW.

@ilkoderez601 5 лет назад

Awesome interview! The White Knight II was at the Oshkosh airshow in 2010(?). It was awesome!

@bondsan 5 лет назад

11:31 correct, everyone in the UK calls him a tax dodging bastard.

@sakethbharadwaj7144 5 лет назад

Send flat-earthers to space.

@bassimkiani5504 5 лет назад

LOL

@blackflash9935 5 лет назад

They will say that you are showing them a hologram.

@bassimkiani5504 5 лет назад

@@blackflash9935 nope. they'll think you put them in a VR 😂😂

@neutronstar6739 5 лет назад

What? no don't send them lmao, Us space lover needs to go first.

@fancyghost7358 5 лет назад

Why would you give them such a priceless reward for being so stupid?

@ninjazombie221 4 года назад

This my friends is history in the making before our eyes, sure right now it may be in its infancy but you have to start somewhere and this is just barely the beginning

@long-timelistenerfirst-t-us2yy 5 лет назад

*O.O WOW!* ... just _wow_ you guys have really outdone yourselves!

@Scribe13013 5 лет назад

Aren't we already space tourists in a way?

@hybridwafer 5 лет назад

How to steer this thing though?

@freezatron 5 лет назад

Not really because we actually live here .... tourism is visiting places you don't live ..... More accurate to say that we're space travelers perhaps, in a way ... if you really want to stretch a definition or two :)

@adm0iii 5 лет назад

"We'll be traveling at an altitude of 150 million kilometers at a cruising speed of 107 thousand km/h..."

@kendomyers 5 лет назад

First in Space Far out man Theres a star man, waiting in the sky, hed like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds

@AlmightyXI 5 лет назад

Good video. Don't be afraid to experiment with styles outside your comfort zone. This was different than what I expected when I clicked on the video but still enjoyable.

@AMAINE207 5 лет назад

Wow. That was a very impressive interview. Great job!

@marco.nascimento 5 лет назад

That's very exciting!! I dream of going to space since I was a kid, always loved astronomy and science as whole, so being alive in this era of a new space race is pretty awesome. Gives me some hope of achieving the dream one day

@Bradgilliswhammyman 5 лет назад

Space station, space elevator....lets make it happen!! Sunglasses hanging off the shirt...how chic!

@murphyjanitorial 5 лет назад

Love the smashing pumpkins shirt 👍

@slagondrayer447 5 лет назад

Real cool, congrats Matt.

@Ostinat0 5 лет назад

Thanks for covering this! The huge leaps and bounds I'm sure all of us here want to see in space travel aren't going to come until the idea of just about anyone going to space isn't outlandish. It was the same for air and sea travel and I"d guess even for things like the Roman road network as well.

@luudest 5 лет назад

Space Time Ships

@mikeclarke952 5 лет назад

The first restaurant on the moon should called ......... Crater Cater and when that goes belly-up, they re-open as : Greater Crater Cater. Ok I'm done.

@hopp2184 5 лет назад

Mike kirock it should be called “the restaurant at the end of the universe” as tribute to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

@hunterpatterson6986 5 лет назад

Wouldnt the "Cater Crater" sound better?

@mikeclarke952 5 лет назад

@@hunterpatterson6986 That's just lunacy.

@jeffvader811 5 лет назад

I don't think a restaurant on the moon would be very nice, there'd be no atmosphere.

@kickinrocks6055 5 лет назад

Its a bakery... Moon Pies.

@SIX-SH00T3R 5 лет назад

loved it! what A genuine guy he seems

@tobybowers6990 5 лет назад

Anyone else here used to climb the fence into Sir Richard Bransons yard in Kidlington for his massive party's back in the 90's as a poor kid this was another world. good times.

@non-inertialobserver946 5 лет назад

Eel on musk

@khloerabnta4995 5 лет назад

I’m going to keep my money on space x. Nothing against the others. But Elon is the one I see breaking all kinds of limits when it comes to space travel.

@VonJay 5 лет назад

Khloe Rabnta I think that all of them will be able to deliver. Can't wait till they get their space hotels up there though

@tumbleddry2887 5 лет назад

and basic human rights.........

@sha2143 5 лет назад

@@tumbleddry2887 "Human rights" aren't a thing. It's U.N. propaganda used to push authoritarian policies onto nations whose populace didn't vote for. Civic rights are something else entirely. Don't get them confused.

@mykofreder1682 5 лет назад

For people with a lot of money to make an Allen Shepherd trip, this guy would be your bet, I would not take the trip it looks very dangerous. Space X and their ability to push their envelope like I never have scene in space. I think they will have a real moon base in the next decade, after that physicist and astronomers world wide will be pushing to put at minimum permanent telescopes next to this base. It could be like the artic bases once constructed with a lot less maintenance and danger than an orbiting space lab. Mars and colonization is more publicity and a carrot and I doubt it will ever happen. Being a private company any company can get into this adventure, Japan or the EU might just put money into a base or telescope and the US can't stand in their way. They have money for science and this all of a sudden a possibility for them.

@zazenora7225 4 года назад

We're still waiting on that "Story for another time" about how you got onto his island!

@macbuff81 5 лет назад

Having your own space company and living on a tropical island all while helping preserve this planet. Very cool. I want that :)

@sagnorm1863 5 лет назад

NASA, when it had funds in the 20th century, got people on the moon. These "billionaire heroes" in the 21st century haven't achieved anything close the work of 20th century NASA. How about they pay taxes and just fund NASA? Not to mention fund education so more scientists and engineers will be out there who are doing the actual work the billionaires are getting credit for.

@doctorkropotkin6710 5 лет назад

Dick Branson is a vampire. He fined the UK government when his private health company lost a contract to the NHS. The reason he lives on that super-villain island is so he doesn't have to pay taxes to the country he makes his money from.

@adm0iii 5 лет назад

And? Of course, any of _us_ that had a way of not paying taxes wouldn't take advantage of it.

@doctorkropotkin6710 5 лет назад

@June Kreps The main difference is I can't ask my buddies in government to rewrite the rules so that I can avoid taxes more easily. Billionaires can and do. They corrupt the system to suit themselves, the rest of us just have to pay what we're told to.

@Deserrto 5 лет назад

I think it's wrong to call anyone who goes to space astronaut

@donfinch862 5 лет назад

I googled the definition of an astronaut, "a person who is trained for traveling in spacecraft". (Cambridge English Dictionary) There are others that say "one that travels in space". hmmmmm. I tend to agree. Passengers on a plane are not a pilot

@jpian0923 5 лет назад

True. An asronaut is integral to the mission. They train for weeks or months.

@Deserrto 5 лет назад

@@donfinch862 that`s a good analogy! haha

@poppers7317 5 лет назад

We should call them cosmonauts. Problem solved.

@Deserrto 5 лет назад

Poppers 73 sadly cosmonaut is how Russian astronauts are called 😅

@isaacflett1321 5 лет назад

programming a small ship to go within a few hundred metres of the ground reminds me of some of the low passes I've made playing KSP. It's already exciting in the game I can imagine it would be fantastic in real life.

@michaelmeyers4843 5 лет назад

My dream is to use spaceships to vacation across the solar system just like cruise ships are used to tour the Mediterranean or the Bahamas today. Imagine a huge ship with all the vacation amenities: five-star restaurants, entertainment, spas, gyms, etc., designed for zero-G and regular gravity fun. Then having stops at all the planets and moons. Honeymoon suites on Mars, backpacking trips up Olympus Mons, base jumping on Miranda, flight suits with wings for flying like a bird on Titan, and of course, a viewing of Saturn's rings, these are just the beginning. But until that ever happens, I'll just have to stick to reading/writing sci-fi!

@richrichy3015 5 лет назад

Man that would be awesome wouldn't it. On a spaceship like the one on the movie "Passengers". I'd definitely risk my life for something like that.

@michaelmeyers4843 5 лет назад

@@richrichy3015 Yes exactly like Passengers!

@joelnogueira7692 5 лет назад

My dream is to be a space pirate so I can sack ships like those.

@cosmicwakes6443 5 лет назад

Happy Pi Day tomorrow.

@Randomguy-wd5lw 5 лет назад

It goes into space but doesn't achieve orbital velocity, i don't consider it a spaceship, more of a space-plane.

@engrsmukhtar 5 лет назад

A ship that goes to space is called spaceship. Orbit =|= Space.

@Randomguy-wd5lw 5 лет назад

@@engrsmukhtar nah, because it won't go very far into space, no more than a few Km over the Karman line, so no spaceship.

@freezatron 5 лет назад

wrong !!! ..... anything man made that leaves the Earth's atmosphere is a spaceship .... regardless if it achieves orbit or not ...

@Randomguy-wd5lw 5 лет назад

@@freezatron RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

@adm0iii 5 лет назад

So, an ocean-liner isn't a ship?

@DatabaseDan 5 лет назад

That's really cool that your dad is making so much progress on this.

@mattdenihan5653 5 лет назад

Amazing! What a time to be alive!

@flyingskyward2153 5 лет назад

Well this was different. Not sure I'm completely convinced space travel price will drop the same way air travel did, but I wish him luck

@timpeters7852 5 лет назад

It's going to compete with regular air travel at some point especially when nations start taxing carbon emissions realistically. Once they obtain a market position it's going to snowball or they go bust. Basic economics.

@baab4229 5 лет назад

Why wouldn't it drop? What's the difference?

@flyingskyward2153 5 лет назад

@@baab4229 I didn't say it wouldn't drop, I said it wouldn't drop the same way air travel did. Prices are going to go down, this is already happening. It's just not going to go down to plane ticket prices anywhere near as quickly as air travel did.

@baab4229 5 лет назад

@@flyingskyward2153 Why not?

@flyingskyward2153 5 лет назад

@@baab4229 Despite decades of improvement, rockets keep exploding, spacecraft keep failing. Even in the 1920's, air travel wasn't ending with 100% fatalities every 70th flight or so. Branson compared the price of a 1920s air ticket to the quarter mill ticket of his spaceship isn't valid for two reasons. One, his inflation calculation is way off. Two, people have a lot more motivation to pay to cross the Atlantic than to make a 15 minute joyride to space, just to return where you came from. The places you can build spaceports are very limited due to safety. Even getting new airports built or expanded is extremely difficult due to noise complaints, so how are you going to get permission for a spaceport when rockets are so much louder? So build them away from heavily populated areas? For most travel, people come from and want to travel to these heavily populated areas and if there's no spaceport near, you've got to spend hours traveling to and from the port and the main advantage of space passenger travel disappears, speed. The improvement in aerodynamics going from wooden biplanes to sleek aluminium or composite was immense. Rockets are pointy cylinders, they're already pretty aerodynamic. there's no room for massive improvement like airplanes experienced. And are already made from lightweight alloys or composites. No room for massive improvement here either. 1920s aircraft engines were vastly more reliable, efficient than 1910s engines. 1930s engines saw similar improvements compared to the 20s. 40s compared to the 30s too. Rocket engines have not seen similar improvements, a rocket engine from 2019 is only slightly improved compared to a 50 year old one from 1969 and are close to their theoretical maximum so there isn't room for improvement. Could write more, but I hate typing on my phone, but hopefully you get the general idea.

@CodeLeeCarter 5 лет назад

If this world never had any Dreamers, we'd not have what we now all take for granted today,... Hell, It'll be a Dull place without dreamers.

@king_kiff3969 5 лет назад

WOW! What a great exclusive!

@VonJay 5 лет назад

Great video. Almost in tears

@jordanleeadams 5 лет назад

This video isn’t up to your usual standards of quality. It has a strong feeling of being an advertisement. I look forward to your next.

@ashleyteece4237 5 лет назад

This isn't an advert at all. Just a video of an impromptu interview, which is the reason for the lower quality.

@OlexMelnyk1 5 лет назад

Cant wait for a space time episode from space!

@brianhenrichs9409 5 лет назад

This is such an exciting time to be alive!!! I can't wait to see where the private space race heads

@Ghost_Hybrid 5 лет назад

Love your videos, mate

@thejesuschrist 5 лет назад

You can call him Sir Richard, I’ll call him Saint Richard. 🙏

@walterzielinski6654 Год назад

"Saint Richard" is it? Are we talking about the same mendicant billionaire who, at the nadir of the crashed economy wrought by the global Covid lockdown, sought from the Crown an appalling sum of money the banks of the Kingdom would not lend to the truly needy, but were willing to dole out to this pixelated Branson pickle. He is neither a Sir nor a Saint, but a self serving opportunist. Or a mendicant billionaire.

@Nozomu564 5 лет назад

50s called, they want their "astronauts" back.

@kristoforsherdley8986 5 лет назад

That t-shirt image also featured on The Wonder Stuff album entitled Hup

@jaykay4137 3 года назад

I never knew anything about the guy behind Virgin Galactic, but I can tell from the smile he has when he talks about space and the Overview Effect that he's a man after my own heart. Everything he said is exactly how I feel about our responsibility as a species and the role that space travel plays in it.

@DumpsterFlower 5 лет назад

Ok so doing interviews seem like a good move, but could you not have talked to a researcher or scientist from his company, rather than Branson - the man who, for us in the UK, is trying to buy out our health care system and who thought that, when our NHS was at an unprecedented level of stress from under-funding, it was more important that it compensate him for private contracts it didnt get, despite getting another £2bn worth of contracts to extract a profit from our publicly funded, than to treat the sick of our country. He sued the health service for not making him enough money when patients were piling up on waiting lists and key care was already compromised through lack of funds. This is a man for whom the survival of the sick is less important than his wish to profit even more than he does from the public coffers. I mean this is surely a science channel not a platform for divisive entrepreneurs to market themselves and dress it up as entertainment.I usually love this channel but this is incredibly disappointing.

@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 5 лет назад

Hey guys, I found the socialist! ^

@humanrightsadvocate 5 лет назад

Richard Bronson - probably the most charismatic psychopath in the world.

@dfjelddalen 5 лет назад

Great interview! Must save up for ticket now.

@billthepay5990 5 лет назад

I'm sitting here, watching a new episode of PBS Space Time with my freshly bought Dark Energy Mug, and it feels great. Thx SpaceTime !

@davidroddini1512 5 лет назад

Bill Thepay Dark energy is okay, the light roast coffee actually has a higher energy content (caffeine) though.

@Markle2k 5 лет назад

Making space ships is a bit much. He purchased the right to put his company's name on an already existing concept. Albeit by largely bankrolling the entire thing. That is no reason to call reusable rockets "extravagant". I do appreciate the interview, however. He's an interesting dude to get to sit down with.

@sumdumbmick 5 лет назад

A better question is 'when will Virgin Galactic go to space?' Because, it hasn't yet according to international definitions.

@capone1754 5 лет назад

Amazing interview.🤙🏾

@greenmarcosu 5 лет назад

I won't lie, I am a SpaceX fanboy, but it is really exciting that there are multiple private companies that are innovating in different ways when it comes to space travel and exploration. This is a great case of private companies innovating in an industry that was previously dominated by governments.

@kukulroukul4698 5 лет назад

army

@HylanderSB 5 лет назад

Yeah...this was pretty exciting about 10 years ago. Now it's a toy for rich people. I don't believe VG is going to achieve anything substantive, much less profitability.

@falcon7350 5 лет назад

but its nice to see he stayed with it all this time and seen it to the end . but yes i am with you 100%

@baab4229 5 лет назад

Yea a hundred years ago people didn't believe that air travel would become a widely accessible mean of travel. I say who cares what you believe in?

@HylanderSB 5 лет назад

@@baab4229 I'm not casting doubt on space travel for regular folks, just VG's ability to contribute to it. Jeez.

@thisiszaphod 5 лет назад

Thank Branson for taking money out our National Health Service for us, won't you?

@magnumxlpi 5 лет назад

Explain please

@my3dviews 5 лет назад

@@magnumxlpi www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/29/richard-branson-virgin-scoops-1bn-pounds-of-nhs-contracts

@thisiszaphod 5 лет назад

This also is what I had in mind. www.rt.com/uk/430468-branson-virgin-sues-nhs/

@jonathanrabcewicz6191 5 лет назад

Uneducated toxic americans trying to blame their problems on their betters. pathetic subculture

@comfixit 5 лет назад

@@jonathanrabcewicz6191 In the article it mentions the suit was against "NHS England" so when the reviewer mentions "taking money out our National Health Service" he must be a UK citizen for that statement to apply to him. But feel free to blame American's if its a useful outlet for your inner rage. Better than letting it fester and developing cancer later in life.

@thylatrash7668 5 лет назад

awesome video!!

@royb3379 5 лет назад

great vid as always. also as a musician new show sounds amazing

@nastula-dev 5 лет назад

When I hear "Musk" and "Bezos" together, I immidiately think "Weyland-Yutani".. ;)

@hamstsorkxxor 5 лет назад

Making better Worlds!

@Cyberspine 5 лет назад

Space Amazon X?

@alexvalin9085 5 лет назад

@@hamstsorkxxor building better worlds!

@lucidmoses 5 лет назад

"Alternative"??!! Too funny man. By that logic a 1974 Ford pinto is an alternative Lamborghini Countach. Heck I should make a company to send people into space. Get people to jump off a curb and give them there astronaut wings. Cuz, If redefining the karman line is valid then so be it, I'll redefine it to 2 inches. Past this 80k silliness, I'll wait for him to make the 110k (or 100k even) before taking him as having anything more then just dishonest marketing.