‘Someone is seriously…’: Netizens slam Virgin Galactic's ‘space flight’ which happened after Titan submersible mishap
Though the passengers landed safely, Richard Branson and his company drew the ire of netizens as it happened days after Titan submersible mishap.
Space trips and deep sea explorations are two very risky adventures which put human lives at stake. After the recent Titan submersible tragedy, many people developed cold feet when it comes to such adventures. But British billionaire and businessman Richard Branson seemed unperturbed. Less than a week after the Titan incident, Branson's Virgin Galactic has flown paying customers to space on Thursday.
Though the passengers successfully undertook the trip and landed safely, Branson and his company drew the ire of netizens for it happening days after Titan submersible mishap, an adventure trip to explore the Titanic wreck, which claimed five lives.
After the date of the space flight was shared in a post by Pubity, an entertainment-media account on Instagram, several users roasted Virgin Galactic drawing parallels with the Titan submersible tragedy.
"Not after that submarine, thanks," commented one user.
"It doesn’t sound like the best marketing time for this after the Titanic submarine," quipped another user.
"Someone is seriously trying to decrease that 1% population," commented a third user.
"On this week’s episode of “Expensive Ways to Die”," wrote a fourth person.
"Today’s headlines: 10 billionaires now missing in a 100 million dollar spacecraft while on tour of the moon," predicted a fifth user.
"Thank goodness I’m too broke for death !," wrote another.
"Watch as we humans expertly learn *nothing* about the dangers of designer tourism," commented another person.
Meanwhile, Virgin Galactic successfully completed the adventure mission through VSS Unity craft which carried six people on board, including researchers from the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council of Italy.
Virgin Galactic is now planning its next space mission, Galactic 02, for August, and hopes to make monthly space trips after that. In November 2014, one crew member had died during a test flight of Virgin Galactic's prototype craft.
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