Richard Branson’s $450K spaceflights under fire in wake of Titan tragedy

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Richard Branson’s $450K spaceflights under fire in wake of Titan tragedy
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“Soooo they didnt learn with the sub?” one social media user wondered.

Branson had planned to launch tourists into space in 2013 before pushing this timetable to 2015. Federal government approval was finally granted in 2021.Col. Walter Villadei and Lt. Col. Angelo Landolfi, of the Italian Air Force, and Pantaleone Carlucci, an engineer from the National Research Council of Italy, will join Virgin Galactic’s astronaut Colin Bennett for the historic spaceflight.

This photo, taken on Dec. 13, 2018, is Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity seen coming in for a landing after its suborbital test flight in Mojave, California.This photo released by Virgin Galactic shows a view of Earth from Virgin Galactic’s rocket plane as it reaches an altitude of more than 54 miles during a test flight on May 25, 2023.

In August, the company plans to begin flights to the edge of space for ticketholders, starting with Galactic 02. Monthly flights are expected to follow.The initial batch went for $200,000, with the price rising to $450,000 per person. The sub was carrying five people as part of a June 18 tourist expedition to view what remains of the Titanic. Communication with Titan was lost 105 minutes into its dive, and authorities were alerted when it failed to resurface at the scheduled time later that day.

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