Premarket at $60, looks like it will open a new highs.
Who do you think paid for his spaceport in New Mexico!!!
True to form, Bransonās been suckling off the taxpayerās teat as usual but at least heās not doing it in the UK or to our NHS for a change.
A ten year old articleā¦ Is Richard Branson all he's cracked up to be? | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian that still rings true today. Perhaps even more so given that he was so quick to start begging taxpayers, from the comfort of his tropical island, to save his airline for him (though I think he was denied assistance with that).
Virgin Galactic vehicle is just a dated death trap. As much as I dislike Bezos and his little toy rocket, I think heās far more likely to be ferrying people to the edge of space for a few minutes of 0G more regularly than Branson every will.
And in case anyone missed the news yesterday, SpaceX are sending the first full civillian team into orbit for up to 5 days of pooing in a bag and smelling each otherās body odour at the end of this year - SpaceX announces first āall-civilianā mission to space - The Verge
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We will finally see this year, āciviliansā in space, via SPCE, without a $100m ticket needed for SpaceX.
spaceX done so many launches in January Ive lost track. Elon is a busy man with big plans. Heās bigger than Big Shaq. Man he can dance.
To Mars in 5.5 years if you trust what he sais in that Clubhouse chat on sunday.
To the Moon is so last week.
Space X cant even get its rocket to land from the edge of the atmosphere without blowing up. Mars in 5 years is laughable.
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No doubt yesterdays spaceX test flight failure got the shorts all excited for SPCE. Nice drop gives an opportunity to get back in.
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It was really hard to tell if you were being sarcastic in that first sentence.
Elon Musk is a dreamer, unfortunately in the real world its not that easy. We are several decades away from a mars base. We need a decade on the moon first. Lets make humans living on the moon a normality, before even thinking about mars.
Science Fiction isnāt quite the same as Science Fact.
disclaimer I do hold a number of Virgin Galactic stock.
I prefer VG over any other space tourism stock because itās based on simple aeronautics and variations on a plane. The trick to success is bringing your customers back alive. Trying to land a vertical rocket has many more problems than landing a plane.
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Thatās the whole point of testing.
They couldnāt land the boosters 10 years ago, but now they have hundreds of space internet satellites and people on the space station. Monthly launches.
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Iām a dreamr and a scientist. I was going to buy Boeing because Dreamliners are amazin (I miss flyin)). But Boeing canāt launch a test capsule into the atmosphere without bugsādespite the advnatage of being around for decades unlike spacexābefore sending humans to the space station. Their last new plane had an awful software bug.
I want to go the the Moon Mars with Elon. Heās moving whole industries and has time for memes. He knows his vehicles from the inside out too ā a hands-on CEO.
Also Blue Origin --go Jeff!
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Iām a space geek, Iām even sad enough to watch a lot of these test launches live on various youtube channels. 
Iād also take Blue Origin over SpaceX anytime. Iād certainly prefer to return to earth via parachute (Blue Origin), and plane (Virgin Galactic), than sitting in a vertical tube
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Been monitorin SpaceX launches since before their first Nasa contract. Elon said rockets tend to kaboom because its in their nature. They build and test and rebuild. I want Blue origin to be constantly testin.
Hereās the first launches:
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2006, 2007, 2008 - it was just awfulā¦ bad days
in 2020: launches 78-106
(a few droneship failures)
This year they done 3 launches while we were asleep
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A moon base and a mars base are completely different beasts.
The technologies are almost incompatible.
I have to disagree there. Both have the two huge challenges in that they have to produce their own oxygen, and people have to cope in low gravity, Mars being 38% of Earth, the Moon being 17% of Earth.
The only major difference, (other than distance to get there), is that Mars has severe weather at times, which would have to be overcome. A vast amount of the technology, especially life support, created for a moon base can be used on a mars base, especially as water has been discovered on both locations, which would be used for both life support and fuel. .
100%.
You need GameStop technologies for the Moon base with AMCās know-how. SpaceX is currently compatible with the Mars atmosphere and they canāt get their rockets to land safely yet. Iād still say weāre about 5.5 years away from travelling to Mars.
on a serious note @Heff thereās gonna be a new book about this stonk!!
"This previously unreported account of the flight in February 2019 is contained in āTest Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronautā by New Yorker magazine journalist Nicholas Schmidle, who spent almost four years embedded with the company. The bookās publisher, Henry Holt and Co., sent an advance copy to The Washington Post. The book is scheduled for release May 4. "
Whoās buying 
back near record highs again.
Test flight not till May now.second ship will be ready at the end of march
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Iām quite positive they will send something in the 2022 launch windows, they have the resourcs to waste on a test flight of this magnitude.
The data they gain will be enourmous, and it will allow them to launch something more substantial in the 2024 window.
I bought shares respectively at $44, $49, $57 & $61! & recently at $45
It was going so well and then delay was announcedā¦ Now the big red minus is hovering above my 28 shares but I truly believe one day it will increase tenfold.
Funny enough I had my finger on sale twice when I saw $200 profit and yet I bought instead of selling 
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