<story><title>The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-red-warning-light-on-richard-bransons-space-flight</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bigtones</author><text>Brilliant well written article. Not without bias, but you can see through the words on the page and into the immense pressure that team at Virgin Galactic must have been under to get their boss into space and to beat Bezos, all for the inflated ego of one man. Branson did put his life on the line to achieve that accolade though, which was a gutsy move.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>There are other flaws too.  Like pretending to bike to the spaceport on the day of, but it was actually filmed the week before and when called out, they said, oops, you&amp;#x27;re right, sorry!&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like when Guy Fiery in his hot rod. He pretends he rolls up to the place in his 70s hot rod, but actually it&amp;#x27;s just rolled out of the truck that lugs it around from location to location and he opens the door, sits, gets filmed getting out, shuts the door and it goes back up the ramp.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s all fakery.</text></comment>
<story><title>The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-red-warning-light-on-richard-bransons-space-flight</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bigtones</author><text>Brilliant well written article. Not without bias, but you can see through the words on the page and into the immense pressure that team at Virgin Galactic must have been under to get their boss into space and to beat Bezos, all for the inflated ego of one man. Branson did put his life on the line to achieve that accolade though, which was a gutsy move.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timmytokyo</author><text>Violating airspace regulations isn&amp;#x27;t gutsy. It&amp;#x27;s irresponsible and selfish. It puts others at risk.</text></comment>