Stories from the final days of Virgin Galactics SpaceShipTwo, with Burt Rutan describing to Richard Branson the exciting new plastic propellant that flew for the first time yesterday… In the forward to a book on SpaceShipOne, Sir Arthur Clarke wrote: “Space travel is returning to where it started: with maverick pioneers dreaming of journeys to orbit and beyond, some carrying out rocket experiments in their own backyards. The rise of citizen astronauts has already begun.” This was 2007, months before he died, and before SpaceX had a successful flight. Sir Richard Branson: Space is hard - but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together. Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides: The future rests in many ways on hard days like this, but we believe we owe it to the team, that has been working so hard on this endeavour, to understand this and to move forward. And that is what we’ll do.”
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 20:40:46 +0000
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