This is year is ending soon and now it is time to look what has happened.
Virgin Galactic had the third rocket powered test flight 10/01/2014. The fourth test flight 31/10/2014 failed and resulted in the death of another test pilot. The year 2014 will be remembered for this accident. Virgin Galactic handled the communications of this accident very well and the project is not put on hold. Another SpaceShipTwo rocket was already underway and it should be completed in April 2015. The report of accident will be published in 2015.
My faith in Virgin Galactic has not been shaken because of the accident, and I keep my ticket into space. No one has ever said that going into space would be easy. After all the delays and setbacks my spaceflight will certainly feel much more amazing!
The accident probably means 1-2 year delay for the flights. The first flight into space will probably happen in 2015 or 2016 and my flight will happen then in 2016 or 2017. There will be detailed information coming about the schedule later.
For me this year has been a year of astronaut healthy club. The healthy club continues and occasionally there are some tests. The biggest test was in this year 100 km walk, which I walked 25/10/2014. It took 21 hours 50 minutes to walk the 100 kilometers.
While waiting for my flight I will continue blog writing.
Happy New Year!