Lb8535
Justified & Ancient
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I admit to not having bothered reading the full reporting on these flights, but it appears that they popped out into "space" for a brief time and came back. What exactly did this add to the universal scientific knowledge of space travel or anything else? Surely the technical information on how to leave the atmosphere is generally known by now and scientists in the rarified field of building better rockets and re-entry systems talk to each other. NASA has been sending qualified not-really-military mission specialists on up for extended periods for years. Both of these private flights didn't match the old dog-or-chimpanzee pop-up flights of many years ago. Why should I care about this? Aside from the mammoth waste of resources.