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As a result, the crew on board the Galactic 02 was only able to feel the effects of weightlessness over a couple of minutes because the vehicle was rocketing back towards the ground at fast speeds
To be fair, that is also what orbital “weightlessness” is. Really long freefall.
.3 miles off of astronaut wings and a hell of a lot of money for the privilege. Oof.
They’ve since corrected it:
Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly stated that the max apogee of the flight was 49.7 miles. In fact, the VSS Unity reached a max altitude of 55 miles.
This thing is the oceangate of space
True YouTube science channel nerds know it’s 80km. https://youtu.be/nILOHp79njQ
Here’s the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07894
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