I'm really glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. Anything to advance spaceflight is something I want to see more of, but this doesn't feel like that, this feels like it's going to end with a number I can call to make my reservation and get an astronaut number. It's pretty damn bold to call oneself Astronaut 001, when none of this would have been possible without the work of dozens of other astronauts before.

While I wasn't too surprised there was a Virgin promotional aspect to it I was surprised at the amount of cross marketing and cross promotion they were doing. There was at least:

1. NBC

2. Land Rover

3. Some new musical artist

4. A New Mexico tourism campaign

I just thought this all made it feel really cheap. It also seems bizarre that you would want to to debase your brand like this during your premiere event.

After the first 10 minutes, my wife said "Can we just mute this? I'm getting nauseous from all this stroking of RB's ego".

I have to agree, and such a waste of Colbert’s talents, who could’ve made it great even with neutral coverage. For me it was still fun to watch… Obviously it would’ve been much better if their live feeds were working.

I've turned off the audio, it actually gets more informative this way...

With some subtle product placement for Land Rover as well.

Yea, I recommend muting the stream if you are interested in watching, otherwise it's 45 min of giving RB a rimjob.

Amazing of all the things you saw you see ego and ads.

Just glad I don't share that lens with everything.

Of course it's an ad - VG is a commercial space flight company - what did you expect?

I don't think the guy who is going to space really cares about getting his ego massaged by commercials.