Can Virgin Galactic Compete With SpaceX?

As modern airliners have developed, major advancements in speed and range have become harder to achieve. Space companies Virgin Galactic and SpaceX are looking to use rockets to revolutionize the air travel industry and cut flight times massively. This video looks at how these two companies are approaching the idea and which one is more likely to succeed.

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Music used in this video:
» Infinite Perspective - Kevin MacLeod
» In The Atmosphere - Bad Snacks
» Stuck In The Air - The Tower Of Light

Credits:
Written by Ryan Saunders
Narrated by: Beau Stucki

[PTNLemay]

3:38
To be fair, the space shuttles alone accounted for 14 of those deaths. They really pushed the risk factor way up.

[BrieoRobino]

Because many astronauts go up multiple times, the death to astronaut ratio doesn't seem congruent to the death to passenger ratio.

[masterofgamingBH]

Random youtube channel: could virgin galactic beat space x?




Space x: that's cute!

[BabyYoda-hkoh]

4:50
"In order to achieve this goal, both of these companies will need to hire people like you"
I hope not! they will never succeed 😂

[paulcooper]

Maybe one day space travel will make walking obsolete

[MarkStillPlays]

Virgin galactic cannot compete with SpaceX because they are virgins

[GuardsmanBass]

I can't really see point-to-point suborbital travel taking off as a major means of transportation, versus tourist flights. The sound and safety concerns limit you to essentially trans-oceanic flights (since you have to launch from and land on sea platforms kilometers off the coast), and it's hard to even get supersonic air transport going on such routes because business class nowadays includes stuff like in-flight internet and fully reclining seats (meaning you can time your flights so that you sleep during the duration and be at your destination ready to go in the morning). The need for fast-as-possible air travel isn't really there anymore for the people who would be mostly likely to purchase it (business travelers).

[baussier]

Those smooth ads are becoming a mark in this channel. Not disturbing at all, I even subscribed on Skillshare with your promo.

[ashishnannuri]

Correction. Virgin galactic is planning to build a new plane for point to point travel it will operate as a private jet and can land and take off at any airport.

[grzegorzkapica]

To me the future is in intercontinental Electric VTOL jets.
Interesting comment about the jet lag. That will be something.

[DavidKnowles]

What do you think of the idea of Virgin Orbit merging or taking over Stratolaunch and its vehicles. Using Talon-A as a experimental airplane to test materials for hypersonic flight. Then eventually licensing or buying Reaction Engines Sabre engines to build a new single stage to orbit space plane? Stratolaunch carrier aircraft plane can be use as a replacement for the 747 or even a larger version of SpaceShipTwo

[InventorZahran]

What about Concorde-style supersonic airliners?

[ottobismar]

Great video and the ads was so smoothh ahaha

[belland_dog]

No, and it's not meant to. Elon went over this already. SpaceX is orbital, Virgin Galactic is Sub Orbital

[MrChiefsmaster]

I can be a rocket engineer using brilliant? That's it? Cool, I'm in! :)

[skatedonut]

Until their ticket prices and safety risks go down you won’t see too many people wanting to travel this way.

[agtoaaa]

Why changed the title from "Could Virgin Galactic Beat SpaceX" to "Could Space Travel Replace Air Travel"? Just curious.

[vijithasanoj]

Did anyone noticed he changed the title of the video

[IntRocketLaunch]

While this video was well made I feel as if this is an unfair comparison. Comparing astronaut deaths and aircraft deaths is not fair or reasonable. Also, this title is a bit misleading. Virgin Galactic and SpaceX have very different goals. While both are pursuing point to point transport, their main goals are not point to point transport. SpaceX is persuing interplanetary travel and Virgin Galactic is persuing suborbital space tourism. Their spacecraft are designed for different uses and cannot be compared. Starship is on a whole other level than SpaceShipTwo.

[K-Effect]

I wish there was high speed mono rails like the ones in Japan all over the world