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Benz created the car but it was Henry Ford who is remembered for making it available to the masses. Charles Lindberghââ¬â¢s flight across the Atlantic was marvellous but the enduring legacy is the airline industry he inspired. Thanks to the the developments made by Burt Rutan and his project, space travel will now be available to the public aboard Virgin Galactic spaceships.
Previously it has been thought impossible to design an affordable, robust man-rated rocket ship. Existing spaceships have been very complicated and not robust enough to carry commercial passengers. By using a space craft with adjustable wings for easy re-entry and powered by an inert nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and rubber fuel, Rutan has brought to an abrupt end the governmental monopoly on rocketship space travel. These developments in technology and safety have enabled the birth of Virgin Galactic.
This is the first step to space travel becoming something people can do almost every day.
ââ¬ÅWe hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensations of weightlessness and space flight. The development will also allow every country in the world to have their own astronauts rather than the privileged fewââ¬Â.
Richard Branson
In the future space might no longer be the final frontier. The advent of efficient, reusable spaceships like SpaceShipOne has the potential to allow the masses to visit, work and play in space. For years Rutan has had a vision of a mass market for having fun in space, whereby people can hop aboard a spaceship as they can a jet airliner.
Virgin Galactic is the bridge to such a dream.
ââ¬ÅWhat we are hoping to achieve with the X Prize is not the legacy I would like to leave. I want to be remembered for helping make affordable space tourism happen, so my kids and hundreds of thousands of people can experience the magic of space. Thatââ¬â¢s only possible in the partnership with Virgin Galactic.
ââ¬ÅI donââ¬â¢t think anyone else could achieve this kind of project properly. Richardââ¬â¢s drive and vision and the experience Virgin has with its airline means Virgin is really the only partner who could pull this off.ââ¬Â
Burt Rutan
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