Baby’s First Step
July 13th, 2021 by Pecos Bill
That thar cayus Richard Branson is sashayin’ around full o’ beans on account of how he reached the edge o’ space.
Waaal. Taint bad for a lil tot, pardner. Shore, a papoose has gotten to start somewheres, so I give yew my full up congrattylations.
But I reckon when yur a grown feller, taint gonna seem so much.
Bookslinger
July 15, 2021
This is a good summary. A sub-orbital flight on a re-usable air-launched space-plane would have been more momentous 10 years ago.
But SpaceX has already made orbital flights with privately-built re-usable rockets and capsules.
From what I gather from Bob Zimmerman at behindtheblack.com, Branson’s space-plane cannot be upgraded to full orbital. It would take a new design.