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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8337034" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Well I'm happy for his team that they got to launch their billionaire into space before any of the other teams launched billionaires into space. They've been at it the longest, have had the roughest time of it, and have had to make do on merely huge amounts of money rather than bottomless reserves of money. They deserved a win. Congrats to their payload (Branson) as well, I suppose.This is probably the high point for their whole endeavor. I think their model of spacetravel (rocketplane launched off mothership plane) represents an evolutionary dead-end in commercial space travel and will ultimately end up a quirky sideshow in the commercial space race, so there probably isn't a great future for Virgin Galactic (even if it has the most ambitious name of the space companies) beyond just selling an x-treme suborbital experience to rich people who don't have the time and/or order of magnitude larger money to spend on a full-fledged space experience. It's good that they at least one the "put a billionaire in space" race, even if only by a hair.</blockquote>