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I'm surprised they landed so close together. amazing. Also, can anyone tell me why they are slowing down as they fall towards earth (before the parachutes deploy)? Shouldn't they be speeding up by 9.8m/s as they fall?
Startup idea: put me into space. For cheap.
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And fingers crossed the two don't merge to become one giant space-war-industrial complex. Gulp.
Startup idea: put me into space. For cheap.
Startup idea: put me into space. For cheap.
One of the reasons the Concorde never really succeeded was due to the nature of faster than sound travel. A sonic boom doesn't just happen as you pass the sound barrier, but rather trails behind an aircraft the entire time it is traveling over that critical speed. This resulted in the Concorde only being able to travel faster than the speed of sound when it was over water (hence it's primary use for travel between New York and Paris or London).
But what if you could travel where there is no air?
Suborbital space flight means that any place on the globe is a 2 hour flight away. This will happen, and I am confident that I will travel in space before I die.