Historic Virgin Galactic Flight Reminds Us That ‘Space’ Is Just a Concept, Man
in the first place today , Virgin Galactic station its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into space , a historic first for the private company . But at a maximum altitude of 51.4 miles ( 82.68 kilometers ) , the spaceplane fell 10.6 miles ( 17.32 kilometers ) short of the Karman line — the internationally acknowledge bound split up the atmosphere from space . Prompting the inevitable inquiry : What the Inferno is blank space , anyway ?...