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> It did not breach the 100km Karman Line, where Earth's atmosphere ends. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a few others have exceeded this. SpaceX regularly sends obje
by craftyguy 8y ago
> It did not breach the 100km Karman Line, where Earth's atmosphere ends.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a few others have exceeded this. SpaceX regularly sends objects to the ICC, which is ~5-6x higher than what Virgin did.
IMHO, they didn't reach space since they didn't break the Karman line... They just achieved "very high atmospheric flight". It's still quite an achievement, and more than they've done in the past IIRC, but they still have a long ways to go.
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y agoDidn't Scaled Composites do this with SpaceShip One about 15 years ago?
- sungx105 8y agoThis article is about SpaceShipTwo, the successor version that was supposed to actually be able to carry passengers
- zone411 8y agoSending objects vs humans is a completely different ballgame, so this comparison doesn't look valid. And Karman's line is not very well defined - see https://www.livescience.com/63166-outer-space-border-karman-line.html https://www.livescience.com/63166-outer-space-border-karman-....