The notion of getting the general public into low-Earth orbit I don't think is far-fetched at all.
From Brian Binnie
Golf is a working man's sport in Scotland.
I always liked airplanes, and I decided I was going to go to school to study them.
If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.'
Weightlessness is a wonderful experience. It feels like magic. It really does.
The delay in SpaceShipTwo has not been the development of either of the vehicles. But the rocket motor has just been problematic from the get-go.
I was a big aviation buff as a boy.
I was never a Trekkie, nor a science fiction guy.
I remember going to London with my father in 1968 to see '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I just soaked in that movie. To me, that was real; it was going to happen.
I never declared I wanted to be an astronaut, as I considered that was presumptuous.
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