I’d have never put a dime into this company.
[Update a while later]
In comments, some people seem to think that this is reflective of a fundamental problem with suborbital tourism. It is not. It was a problem of management and design decisions. There is a market for suborbital tourism, but neither of the only two companies offering it are properly tapping it. It’s tragic that XCOR couldn’t survive. It only needed a small fraction of the money that’s been wasted on Virgin Galactic.
I can’t imagine myself paying to look at Earth when I can already do that for free and the Moon is tantalizingly near.
https://twitter.com/chandrayaan_3/status/1688215948531015681
I tend to agree with FC but for a different reason. If SpaceX ever does make P2P suborbital travel routine, there won’t be a point to the Virgin Galactic business model. In today’s day and age barnstormer’s can’t make any money outside the county fairs. Not since folks can just purchase a ticket at any regional airport in the country and travel in pressurized compartment luxury and with a window seat get to see much more of what they would have in deafening noise while wearing goggles and a scarf.
In fact, I’m almost willing to predict that Zero-G in suborbital P2P will be something SpaceX may try to actually *avoid* or minimize as much as possible for passenger comfort, convenience and safety.