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Just did some rough calculations on a different thread about the conditions he would have experienced here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603968 https:/
by pwnna 12y ago
Just did some rough calculations on a different thread about the conditions he would have experienced here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603968
But yeah, he's gotta be the luckiest person alive right now, being the only one surviving a space launch related accident while airborne.
- lmm 12y agoYeager famously survived an accident with a modified F-104 that was in some ways quite similar to the SpaceX craft (i.e. a plane with a rocket that can fly an arc up out of the atmosphere). Quite a few of these rocket-plane flights were considered spaceflight at the time, though they don't meet the modern (100km) definition.
- yincrash 12y agoTo clarify, it was a Virgin Galactic craft, not SpaceX.