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ONE OF A KIND
“It would be the ride of a lifetime,”
and as always with Branson, that’s
just the beginning.
T he entrepreneur behind Virgin Group is ramifications are as vast as the first transatlantic flights.
creating a suborbital Who’s Who with At $250,000 the current ticket holders are financing the
his passenger list of stars. About 600 rocket science.
have signed up for the first of its kind In the works: space tourism and picking up where
ride in space where they will take a two and a half hour the Concorde left off with Virgin offering supersonic
voyage that includes six minutes of weightlessness and flights such as London to Sydney in 2.5 hours. This
a view of planet earth. will greatly facilitate Sir Richard Branson’s lifestyle as
he manages all the facets of the Virgin Group traveling
“The program has taken longer that we’d expected,” from Necker, his private British Island residence, resort
Branson admits, “but it is rocket science, and rocket and headquarters.
science, as we’ve discovered, is difficult.” It’s a
challenge Branson is happy to take on, as the long-term
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