Confidence In Nonsense Is Required.

Look At The Aerospace Industry As It Was Just After The Kennedy Talk. We Were Hiring Like Crazy. We Were Trying To Get People Graduated From College. Hey, You Got To Go To The Program. We Need You.

The Next 15 Years Will See Thousands Of People Leave The Atmosphere On Suborbital Flights. My Company's Ss2 System Might Fly 100,000 People By 2024. If It Is Shown To Be Highly Profitable, Perhaps We Will See 20,000 People Traveling To Orbit By 2035, And Then Thousands To The Moon By 2050. If We Make A Courageous Decision, Like The Program We Kicked Off For Apollo, We Will See Our Grandchildren In Outposts On Other Planets.

Virgin Galactic, Which Will Be Operating Spaceshiptwo, Will Be Only One Of Several Spacelines. The Competitors For Virgin Include The Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, And Possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And Likely A Couple Of Others Who Are Smart Enough Not To Tell People What They Are Doing!

Our Goal Is To Show That You Can Develop A Robust, Safe Manned Space Program And Do It At An Extremely Low Cost.

A Nasa Astronaut And A Russian Cosmonaut Can't Be Creative. He Has To Follow A Predetermined Detailed Checklist Written By An Engineer And If He Gets A Little Creative He'll Never Fly Again.