Let's lathe of heaven this shit.
If only I bet their ships have better qc than the ones we tend to send out for exploration purposes.
Bezos is an awfully brave man to trust his arse in the people he exploits...
Unfortunately, the sort of people who spend pretty much every waking hour from age 15 studying aerospace engineering and don't jump into military R&D tend to be irritatingly ethical.
Also your choices, if you won't go Mil/Spook and don't land a NASA or SpaceX gig, are pretty limited so fucking around on Bezos' billion dollar dildo is a good gig, and hey, maybe he'll stop meddling and make orbit in a decade or so.
Branson just invented a new sport: billionaire roulette
one of these fucks is going up in flames guaranteed
“The structural integrity of the entire stabilizer was compromised,” Todd Ericson, a test pilot who also served as a vice president for safety and test, said, according to a soon-to-be-published book. “I don’t know how we didn’t lose the vehicle and kill three people.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/01/richard-branson-virgin-galactic-test-book/