First Virgin Galactic civilian spaceflight reaches space

Virgin Galactic launched its first spaceflight with civilians onboard, allowing the three passengers to experience weightlessness and giving them a view of Earth from altitude of about 53 miles. 

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[jaygeewin]

I’m surprised this didn’t get much media attention. THIS IS AWESOME!

[daa]

After the Submarine fail a couple of months ago, I'm so glad this was a successful flight.

[HolySoopCoolers]

This was way cooler than I thought it would be.

[dawn]

Way better than going 12, 000 feet under the ocean

[Jigsaw]

Imagine how this experience would humble our society in the US. When we come back to earth, the perspectives of life would be so different. 💜😊

[aboucard]

2:41 Imagine how awe inspiring space must be. I mean this girls face is glued to whatever she is seeing

[noahs]

This is the first step of commercial space flight. As a soon to be aerospace engineer, I'm very proud of this achievement, and soon, hopefully, in the next decade, we would see more space flights across the solar system and beyond.

[unityelt]

All flat earthers should take this flight

[AllSaintsGal]

Soooo awesome. Congratulations to Keisha and Ana! Such a historic moment for our country 🇦🇬🇦🇬🇦🇬🇦🇬

[deansmith]

Brought a tear to my eye, amazing accomplishment .

Weightless = falling ....

[Zemlynn]

I always dreamed of seeing the world in space. Sometimes in a space craft, most of the time just me floating out there, watching the world move. I hope I get to do this one day.

[codizel]

they should take a group of flat earthers up in space and make a documentary about it.

[journey]

The look of awe😮 in the young ladies eyes 👀 says it all. Experience they will never forget 🎉❤.
View from space, 🌎🌍 so beautiful ❤️. Get below the heavens, people and everything else is a hot mess.

[jjss]

Someone forgot to tell the reporter that going to space as a tourist doesn't make you an Astronaut. An Astronaut is a specialized job classified by having a "safety sensitive role in the mission". Buying a ticket to space does not make you one. Technically speaking the two pilots are, though. And they technically didn't go to space because they didn't pass the Karman line.

[JasperGoldspire]

Wonder how the flat earthers are feeling about this lol

[RaRa.]

This is such an amazing step to civilian space flight, and that just makes me realize that it may soon be possible for us all to experience space. Something I've always dreamed of myself too.

[kimstaples]

So proud of our country women and men 💝🇦🇬

[drstew]

I can just hear the Flat earth community saying this is all CGI .They don’t like irrefutable evidence of earths actual shape 😂

[onanisland]

This required a lot of guts (Perhaps payment) to take on any experimental maiden voyage to space. I can only imagine how nervous everyone inside.

[imshaunnurse]

Love seeing the antigua flag on the news