Will Whitehorn Quotations

We are already in discussion with a number of states in the United States.

We have a significant level of deposits nownearly $10 million worth.

Let me be clear, this is an estimate only,

We're prepared to invest another $100 million to develop this business. I just appointed our head of astronaut relations to arrange for them to make deposits.

Recent acquisitions coupled with further structural changes being made to the group, will provide a good platform from which to generate further growth in the next financial year.

Our passengers will experience even faster acceleration than Nasa astronauts. They'll see the blackness of space, and the curvature of the blue planet beneath them, and experience weightlessness.

It allows us to activate all the parts of the project.

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.

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.

We've now signed up 100 pioneer launch customers, ... We have another 35,000 have registered who said they want to take a flight. We're going to take an entirely different view of leaving the planet's surface.

Exporting the technology to a third party country would be another issue...and one that will have to be addressed in the future.

Virgin is progressing on a deal to launch a mobile venture in the United States.

Virgin Books will be publishing an autobiography. But it is relatively early days. We still need to proceed to a final contract.

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.

Putting it in ITAR termsthis is one small step for ITAR, one big leap for Virgin Galactic.

That's where we expect to be in production.

This is a project not without risk. It's our goal to be the first ones to do it safely.

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.

It's time we rediscovered the thrill of space,

The high margins meant selling cars was one of the most glamorous businesses to be in during the 1950s and '60s,