Virgin Galactic netmeetingWednesday 11/21/12, time 9:58 PM Virgin Galactic organized the first netmeeting for the future astronauts. In the meeting the project status was updated and we could ask some questions. George Whitesides, CEO for Virgin Galactic and Stephen Attenborough, the Commercial Director for Virgin Galactic answered to our questions. The timetable was revised: the first powered rocket flight should happen in December 2012 or in January 2013. The first commercial flight will take place 9-12 months after this. So timetable is the same as Mr Branson told us in July. There will be a lot of cameras in the rocket and we can take a little camera too. The training before the flight will take three days. There will be good places to watch the training and the flight for friends and family. Our meeting in 2013 will propably take place in California, where we can watch how SpaceShipTwo -rockets are being built. Virgin Galactic recommends two things before the flight: take care of your health and make Zero-G flight. When we go to space, we will have 3.5 G-force and when we are coming down, we will have at the highest point 5.5 G-force. |