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Have we heard from Richard Branson since he  went up into space too?

Short trips. 

Going up in zero gravity, etc. when you're around 80+ yrs. old is probably not a great idea, even despite the fact their health was probably checked before rocketing upward.  Though we don't know/public not told, I wonder what the cut-off would  be not to allow someone to go up into space... a diagnosed heart problem or??

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1 hour ago, shootingstar said:

Have we heard from Richard Branson since he  went up into space too?

Short trips. 

Going up in zero gravity, etc. when you're around 80+ yrs. old is probably not a great idea, even despite the fact their health was probably checked before rocketing upward.  Though we don't know/public not told, I wonder what the cut-off would  be not to allow someone to go up into space... a diagnosed heart problem or??

Wasn't very lucky for Glen de Vries as his luck turned bad pretty quickly after the flight.

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4 hours ago, shootingstar said:

Have we heard from Richard Branson since he  went up into space too?

Short trips. 

Going up in zero gravity, etc. when you're around 80+ yrs. old is probably not a great idea, even despite the fact their health was probably checked before rocketing upward.  Though we don't know/public not told, I wonder what the cut-off would  be not to allow someone to go up into space... a diagnosed heart problem or??

He actually didn't go into zero gravity.  The craft went up to the edge of space, where everyone's weight was about 95% of what it is on earth.  Then it accelerated downward at the same rate gravity was pulling their bodies downward so they were falling at the same rate the walls, floor, and ceiling of the craft around them were and got the illusion of weightlessness.  It's sort of like that butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling you sometimes get momentarily when an elevator begins to move down.

Spacecraft that go into orbit have centrifugal forces pushing them away from Earth with the same force that their weight (mass x gravity) is trying to pull them toward earth, so orbital astronauts experience weightlessness because the two forces cancel each other out.

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