CNN's Rachel Crane speaks with Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson after his historic trip to space.
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Richard Branson describes ‘extraordinary’ space flight
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Meanwhile i’m replacing dry wall in my house
Good honest work. Enjoy the fruits of your labor.
@peremptory expression at least it’s now made with real meat…
😂😂😂
@Dr. Romeo Leo literally EVERYTHING is in space, including “fake”
@7X HARDER
If you wanna to get that deep there usually only 2 forces pushing against each other
OMG, all that has been on TV is this billionaire blast-off. We’ll be seeing it on all news channels all week…, WTF ???
@Mr. Majestic got to fly tomorrow for the first time in 20 years and no I will not like it
Exactly this is stupid.
@Paul Astle Branson’s company is about to go under and they can’t afford to pay employee salaries 🤣
that mentality will always make you a loser
Its a good distraction from covid actually 👌
going onto space
i jumped up my feet onto space too, almost hitting ceiling
…what a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon …I wonder if he had time to pick up a T shirt WOW …I’m old enough to remember the first moon landing and now this
“Now Richard, can you tell us how much attention you actually do need to not immediately disintegrate at any given moment?
Oh, all of it. Cool.”
After 10 years this will be normal like taking a plane
🤣 dumest comment here.
We won’t be here in ten years at this rate thx to climate change
Still haven’t figured out why all the billionaires are in a space race, huh? Well, when our little climate problem goes to runaway status, which will be soon, then the earth’s own AC system kicks in, which are super volcanoes that could usher in a new ice age, or just block the sun for a decade or so forcing all our crops to fail. Can’t wait to tell everyone that I told you so as we all fight and starve to death.
@Sandra Wade We will be, but you’ll just have to wear a fire suit so you don’t burst into flames!
Hopefully!
I hope I have enough money to pay my rent this month.
Isn’t this the guy that has been lecturing all of us about carbon footrprints and how much fuel we use and how we’re destroying the planet??
So he gets a twin engine plane that carries his rocket into the air, and then he does a rocket burn in the atmosphere lol? How many thousands of pounds of fuel were burnt and carbon expended on that one richard?
@MangoMountain Gaming context analysis isn’t one of your strongest traits is it?
@Donald Trump2020 You think there is work in Florida? Your hilarious
go to work
Most realistic thing I’ve read all day
The hell with space, I want to go to Branson’s private Caribbean island. That place looks cool.
Ever since the Jeffrey Epstein case, I don’t want to go to anybody’s private island. Next thing you know, years down the line they get busted for something that has nothing to do with you, but your name is in the visitors log. F*ck that! 😂
Is that the one near epstein’s where richard and him used to hang out?
I’ll tell you what and that is: in space there’s nowhere to go and there’s nothing to do.
We’ve all seen the earth from space 100s of times.
The overview effect. Richard Branson had two minutes and now wants to protect the rainforest. When Bezos goes, hopefully he goes way farther and stays out there for a week or two. Then maybe he’ll make sure his workers have a safe environment to go to every day. Or give them bathroom breaks.
Isn’t this the guy that has been lecturing all of us about carbon footrprints and how much fuel we use and how we’re destroying the planet??
So he gets a twin engine plane that carries his rocket into the air, and then he does a rocket burn in the atmosphere lol? How many thousands of pounds of fuel were burnt and carbon expended on that one ?
@Bill Billson About the same as a transatlantic flight, which thousands of people make every day. It’s not great, and there are cleaner burning rocket engines than the solid fuel that this burns, but its not like rocket launches make up a majority of pollution expended on earth.
@Entropic i don’t really care about the pollution. It’s just odd to watch a guy lecture people for so long about carbon and then that same exact person take a 4 engine aircraft drag his rocket up there and then he does a rocket burn as well. I mean the hypocrisy level is off the flippin chart.
@Bill Billson Its not just that. Imagine how much carbon he puts into the air traveling to his private island. He’s a massive Hippocratic.
At least Musk is living a minimal lifestyle. Not sue hes much better but at least he doesn’t seem like an absolute Hippocratic.
@B Babbich — i concur. Not to mention ole branson was good friends with epstein which just adds a whole nother level to this guys dirtbaggery
Happy this was a safe trip unlike two others over the decades that failed heading to space resulting in death and billions of dollars.
It highlights just how small our planet is in the universe, it’s our home and we should take care of it.
By having branson lecture us about carbon usage while he does rocket burns in the atmosphere?
Love how the Final is playing in the back
I think that flat-earth people should buy a ticket on one of those flights.
@Fred A I’m thinking that flat earth folks are all suffering from a form of astigmatism.
The Firmament does exist; it’s just that flat-earthers and detractors alike misinterpret what that is exactly…they’re both confused.
Or they should just die
No thx .
I wish I could afford to go to the doctor. But yeah, yay for billionaires in space.
Yes- lately, the news cycles are full of billionaires and their latest toys, many space-related. To me, kind of sickening. There is hunger and death by the millions down on earth, and these obscenely rich “haves”- Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, now Branson, spending untold millions on space toys.
@Monish Chatterjee From the comments most Americans could care less how the wealthy burn their money.
Jeff bezos has backed out from the space cos he’s always gonna be number 2
He is a #2!
he can target Moon
When you make money you just do what you dreamed of doing innit.
Now Branson is going to permanently dress like an Avenger.
I would.
Isn’t this the guy that has been lecturing all of us about carbon footrprints and how much fuel we use and how we’re destroying the planet??
So he gets a twin engine plane that carries his rocket into the air, and then he does a rocket burn in the atmosphere lol? How many thousands of pounds of fuel were burnt and carbon expended on that one richard?
@Bill Billson I recommend you watch everyday astronaut’s rocket pollution video. It goes over all the different type of fuel and oxidizer combinations, how damaging they are, and the spaceflight industry as a whole. It’s long but in-depth. There’s also an article version of the video
Translation: Richard Branson gets free advertising for his tourism business.
He doesn’t need free advertisement, he has oodles of money.
@M. Yount that’s exactly the joke haha
Free? You think this didn’t cost him anything?
@William Jones Good point. After the GOP gutted truth-in-advertising laws, it’s hard to tell anymore.
Everyone’s hating cuz he’s a privilege billionaire that can now go to space ofteb, but you gotta admit it’s fkn awesome to achieve something like this.