Virgin Galactic, the company that made the Virgin Space flight possible. A little bit more about the Virgin Space Flight would be that this whole project started from two men who produced the SpaceShipOne giving Sir Richard Branson(founder of Virgin Galactic) and Virgin Galactic the confidence to make the investment required to commercialise the prototype technology, thus created teh world's first spaceline.
Upon knowing this news the first thing that came to my mind was 'wow, technology advanced so much in recent years'. It brought about better understanding of space.But everything is like a coin, two sided, with pros there are sure to have cons.
Like a chain reaction, introducing the Virgin space flight will interest companies to think that it is a feasible idea and especially when there already is a prototype makes the project even more assuring and there would be an increase in inverstment. With increase in investment the project will commence, materials and labour would be needed. This would boost the economy as there would be more jobs available, lowering unemployment rate and the increase in demand for specific goods would spur suppliers to sell more and hire more people to transport goods over or help pack the goods for delivery.
However, the Virgin Space Flight would not be so good for people who are not so well off as they would be discouraged and misleaded to thinking that it is only an additional activity for the rich and not exploring and learning more about space. The Virgin Space flight is currently selling its tickets at $200,000 per seat on the SpaceShipTwo and the WhiteKnightTwo. Furthermore, with only economy gains many have forgotten or ignore the damage done to the environment. The two machines would increase the amount of greenhouse gases and contribute to global warming.
To conclude, the introduction of the Virgin Space flight would be good for the economy and also a breakthrough allowing people to be nearer to space than before but we must also not neglect the other factors like the environment and people who are not so fortunate and give them only the chance to envy people who are rich and able to go for the flight.
