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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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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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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Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
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As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
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Virgin is progressing on a deal to launch a mobile venture in the United States.
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Virgin Books will be publishing an autobiography. But it is relatively early days. We still need to proceed to a final contract.
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That's where we expect to be in production.
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This is a project not without risk. It's our goal to be the first ones to do it safely.
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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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Let me be clear, this is an estimate only,
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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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It's time we rediscovered the thrill of space,
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There's clear airspace over the site in New Mexico. The weather is better for launching a very big aircraft. We've got the capacity to build an extra-wide runway. This is a very good location to operate from.
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We are already in discussion with a number of states in the United States.