Comments on: Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Interior Concept http://www.psfk.com/2006/09/virgin_galactic.html Ideas & Trends Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:24:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: VIRGIN UNVEILS SPACESHIP TWO « for what it’s worth http://www.psfk.com/2006/09/virgin_galactic.html/comment-page-1#comment-246910 VIRGIN UNVEILS SPACESHIP TWO « for what it’s worth Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:37:41 +0000 #comment-246910 [...] by veteran aerospace designer Burt Rutan. Whilst the original concept design, SpaceShipOne, was launched over a year ago, this final refined model is now apparently 60% completed and due to start taking its first [...] [...] by veteran aerospace designer Burt Rutan. Whilst the original concept design, SpaceShipOne, was launched over a year ago, this final refined model is now apparently 60% completed and due to start taking its first [...]

]]> By: troiy http://www.psfk.com/2006/09/virgin_galactic.html/comment-page-1#comment-189382 troiy Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:09:28 +0000 #comment-189382 Do u design passenger bus interriors Do u design passenger bus interriors

]]> By: Virgin Unveils SpaceShipTwo on PSFK http://www.psfk.com/2006/09/virgin_galactic.html/comment-page-1#comment-11378 Virgin Unveils SpaceShipTwo on PSFK Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:41:04 +0000 #comment-11378 [...] by veteran aerospace designer Burt Rutan. Whilst the original concept design, SpaceShipOne, was launched over a year ago, this final refined model is now apparently 60% completed and due to start taking its first [...] [...] by veteran aerospace designer Burt Rutan. Whilst the original concept design, SpaceShipOne, was launched over a year ago, this final refined model is now apparently 60% completed and due to start taking its first [...]

]]> By: Brendan Bolger http://www.psfk.com/2006/09/virgin_galactic.html/comment-page-1#comment-1338 Brendan Bolger Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1338 <p>I saw the video this morning from another source and was pretty blown away. There's something so visceral about the idea of blasting up into the sky that can transcend even the limitations of cheap CGI.</p> <p>The Phillipe Starck designed interior was interesting. It really brought to mind the images of space travel from the 1960's, an antiseptic future with meals in a pill and no straight edges or corners for unsightly dirt to settle in. It was a kind of 'better than human' ideology, a civilisation of intellect and lesiure without messy things such as emotions or bodily functions getting in the way of our advancement. </p> <p>And now that people are finally offering space tourism, this 1960s pop futurism (which in the 21st centruy is quite retro and not forward looking) is the style that is being utilised. I reckon that if somebody from that time was suddenly catapulted into today that would look at the design of the SpaceShipTwo and think that the people in the '60s had accurately forecasted the future. The truth seems to be that they actually created it.</p> I saw the video this morning from another source and was pretty blown away. There’s something so visceral about the idea of blasting up into the sky that can transcend even the limitations of cheap CGI.

The Phillipe Starck designed interior was interesting. It really brought to mind the images of space travel from the 1960’s, an antiseptic future with meals in a pill and no straight edges or corners for unsightly dirt to settle in. It was a kind of ‘better than human’ ideology, a civilisation of intellect and lesiure without messy things such as emotions or bodily functions getting in the way of our advancement.

And now that people are finally offering space tourism, this 1960s pop futurism (which in the 21st centruy is quite retro and not forward looking) is the style that is being utilised. I reckon that if somebody from that time was suddenly catapulted into today that would look at the design of the SpaceShipTwo and think that the people in the ’60s had accurately forecasted the future. The truth seems to be that they actually created it.

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