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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!

We Need Affordable Space Travel To Inspire Our Youth, To Let Them Know That They Can Experience Their Dreams, Can Set Significant Goals And Be In A Position To Lead All Of Us To Future Progress In Exploration, Discovery And Fun. Thanks To The X Prize For The Inspiration.

At Various Times Over 20 Years, I Did Preliminary Designs For Aircraft Like The Stratolaunch. For That Whole Time I Was Encouraging Us To Do Something That Almost Everyone Else Felt You Could Not Do.

A Nasa-funded Study Estimates That If The Price Of A Ticket To Space Approached $100,000, Close To A Million People Would Buy One. That's A $100 Billion Industry. Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Gave Me $20 Million In Startup Funding To Go After That Market.

No One Knows How To Make Going To Orbit Orders Of Magnitude Safer And Orders Of Magnitude More Affordable.