WATCH: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity completes 2nd flight from Spaceport America (mission recap video)

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@euansmith

The idea of spending billions of dollars to drop a unit of SEALs anywhere in the world, with no means of extraction, sounds bonkers

Didn’t you see “The Dark Knight?” They’ll just do the skyhook thing with the balloon!

Fulton surface-to-air recovery system

Of course, it will take some time for the B-17 to catch up with the space plane.