White Knight: Commercial Space Flight - Amazing Documentary

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1. Frigging unreal man. That was so cool. The quickest 1hr 20min I've ever watched. Just before this I saw a NASA team getting ridiculously emotional about an unmanned retro-rocket soft landing back on Earth -- yeah, it was pretty good, but this, this was really worth such emotion.
   What a team! What a visionary Burt Rutan! What a gutsy investor Mr Allen! What a pilot Mike Melville and his amazing wife!
   
   It's a cliche come true: "good ol' American know-how, and can-do" -- innovative, gutsy small business (not all small businesses have that, but some do).
   
   The other thing that blew me out was the old footage of Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1 on the first-ever faster-than-sound flight, after he and his rocket-plane are released from the B-29, he does the sweetest barrel-roll, like...just for fun, or, yeah!
   
   And Mike Melville had to fly by the seat of his pants twice in SpaceShipOne! Thank you for putting this up for free Amazing Documentary TV. It's good to get that kind of enthusiasm again at 61 years of age.
2. Such great achievement and there was only 50 spectators????????
   Smells like flat earth stuff. They paid 50 people 2k usd each to play theater.
3. AWESOME!!!!
4. very amazing.....................
5. Why don't they just piggy back the scram jet on a commercial plane and go into space from there?
6. yes..trully amazing..i guess you all agree
7. enough of this crap
8. Brilliant! I will be watching out for the next feat. Well done everyone! This is indeed one giant leap for mankind's achievements.
9. GREAT! Soon my billionaire uncle can blow a few million $$$ on a half hour thrill or maybe get to Tokyo in 2 hrs. instead of 9
10. Amateurish. Ground team unfocused, disconnected.
11. CONGRATULATIONS VERY WELL DONE
12. This video, and the Scaled Composites marketing department, are trying very hard to convince you that "going to space" is the same as "going to orbit".
    
    They aren't the same thing.
    
    That's why SpaceShipOne fell back to Earth, instead of remaining up there as rockets and satellites do. It reached space (60 miles altitude) but did not reach orbit (17,000 miles per hour). So it must fall back down.
    
    It's bullshit. To see a real achievement, look at SpaceX, which actually does achieve both space AND orbit.
13. This is so fake, you can only visit space with UFO's
14. Legend
15. life is everything You are life.!!! Super advanced AI robotic Test Pilots and using wind tunnels saves lives. Spaceships need hulls that protects against cosmic radiation and space debris. Need stronger materials for spaceships like light weight nanotechnology materials for more safety and security. Need more emergency escape and safety measures, save and protect lives, take Your time without risking life
16. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS PURE AMERICAN INGENUITY, AT WORK!!!!!!!!! "..... LEAD, ....FOLLOW, OR,... GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!!" = SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
17. We're I but younger....!,
18. Outer space business = the next # 1 money makers
19. Nobody seems to notice the fact that neither the government of the day or after has looked at how these people managed to do something that they clearly have been wasting millions of tax payers money doing when the answer is in the hands of a few dedicated men on a grain of sand type budget as apposed to the amount they have as I say wasted doing basically they same thing.
    I recall once hearing a guy on T.V. explaining how they had spent millions of dollars just making a pen that would write without gravity!!!
    Even the Russians at the time made the comment that it rather showed the mistrust they had in the space team that they could not fill in paperwork with a pencil that cost less than a dollar.
    When you consider when this was done, and we are now into 2016 the fact that the black budget is unthinkable and there is to date absolutly nothing to show for it.
    Even the stealth bomber is a copy of something the Germans did just before thevend of the war, so much so if you watch the video of the two brothers who designed the plane that 60 years later a model was built to test for stealth, which it past with flying colours, but a lotmore importantly the Germans had done it at the cost of small change unlike Americas attempt.
    I am still gob smacked to think that nobody has ever asked where is all this money going when there is completly nothing to show for it.
    Well done Bert and his team younare in the history books!!!!
20. Nobody seems to notice the fact that neither the government of the day or after has looked at how these people managed to do something that they clearly have been wasting millions of tax payers money doing when the answer is in the hands of a few dedicated men on a grain of sand type budget as apposed to the amount they have as I say wasted doing basically they same thing.
    I recall once hearing a guy on T.V. explaining how they had spent millions of dollars just making a pen that would write without gravity!!!
    Even the Russians at the time made the comment that it rather showed the mistrust they had in the space team that they could not fill in paperwork with a pencil that cost less than a dollar.
    When you consider when this was done, and we are now into 2016 the fact that the black budget is unthinkable and there is to date absolutly nothing to show for it.
    Even the stealth bomber is a copy of something the Germans did just before thevend of the war, so much so if you watch the video of the two brothers who designed the plane that 60 years later a model was built to test for stealth, which it past with flying colours, but a lotmore importantly the Germans had done it at the cost of small change unlike Americas attempt.
    I am still gob smacked to think that nobody has ever asked where is all this money going when there is completly nothing to show for it.
    Well done Bert and his team younare in the history books!!!!