Will Whitehorn
Will Whitehorn
Will Whitehornwas the President of Virgin Galactic until December 2010, a company which plans to offer space tourism flights to the paying public...
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Most private space project that have existed so far haven't come across the issue of the DDTC, ITAR, and export regulations for these kind of technologies from the United States. We're really the first people who have probably gone through a formal process of this nature and come through the other end of it. So I think that's a good precedent.
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What we're talking about here is not just taking rich people to space. We're proving the safety and the viability of space travel. This is the dawn of an new era in space.
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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
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The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
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I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
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In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.
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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
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Putting it in ITAR termsthis is one small step for ITAR, one big leap for Virgin Galactic.
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The supply problem is at the finished product level, and refinery capacity is the fundamental issue. We are trying to act as a catalyst to ease the logjam in the investment process.
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Virgin is progressing on a deal to launch a mobile venture in the United States.