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Re:Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space by gambler on Thursday December 13, 2018 @04:52PM (#18676471)
Fascinating. Didn't know they use real zero-g. Do you have links to any articles that describe the process in more detail?
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Re:Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space by chrisco255 on Thursday December 13, 2018 @05:05PM (#18676557)
Here's a video of Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton in the vomit comet from Apollo 13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IAAjk3QdU8
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Re:Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space by vxNsr on Thursday December 13, 2018 @07:14PM (#18677341)
There are a whole lot of random sharp edges there to be jumping around and then suddenly dropping out of the air every 30 seconds. one of them almost faceplants into something, yikes!
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