Seems a bit short, no? I would have expected a week, or something, considering that's it 3 minutes weightlessness and 5.5 G during re-entry, combined with the emotional stress of flying the first manned flight.
Have they learned absolutely nothing from Alan Shepard's flight?
Thus the name of the launch system. ?Have they learned absolutely nothing from Alan Shepard's flight?
(Shepard famously didn't have any urine collection system, which turned out to be a problem after long holds during the countdown, forcing him to urinate in his suit before launch)
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Orientation matters too. Short duration 5.5 g pushing you into a fully reclined seat isn't like pulling continuous 5.5 g in a fighter ejection seat with a much more upright incline which pulls all of the blood out of your head.
Sure, but that only protects you from lawyers, not from headlines... ?
If you’d just laid out $28 million for a seat in the first ballistic 15 minute sub-orbital flight would you give it up because of a scheduling conflict?
$28 million would be about the passive income made in one year by a barely billionaire invested purely in bonds. If they have 10s of billions in any better investment it's maybe a few weeks worth of passive income. Once you get rich enough, you make money far faster than you can spend it.If you’d just laid out $28 million for a seat in the first ballistic 15 minute sub-orbital flight would you give it up because of a scheduling conflict?
