The Virgin billionaire makes big promises
Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson is on a mission to send Virgin Galactic passengers in space by the end of 2018.
โThe test programme is going really well, and as long as weโve got our brave test pilots pushing it to the limit we think that after whatever it is, 12 years of hard work, weโre nearly there.
โWell we stopped giving dates,โ he confesses. โBut I think Iโd be very disappointed if weโre not into space with a test flight by the end of the year and Iโm not into space myself next year and the progamme isnโt well underway by the end of next year,โ Branson told the Telegraph.
Virgin Galactic is a spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists and suborbital launches for space science missions.
In 2014, Branson claimed that first commercial flight will take place in early 2015. Later in the year aย fatal accident took place during a test launch of SpaceShipTwo.
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