We believe a proper goal for safety is the record that was achieved during the first five years of commercial scheduled airline service which, while exposing the passengers to high risks by today's standards, was more than 100 times as safe as government manned space flight,
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At first, it will be real rich people, hundreds of them flying into suborbital space. But what will happen is you'll run out of real rich people real quickly.Burt Rutan
In fact, it's more dangerous to fly in space in America now than it was earlier. It certainly is more expensive...more difficult. We've been relying on our taxpayer-funded research organization, Na Say, excuse me, NASA.
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In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.
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You're going to be more creative, more innovative, and have a lot more ability to stumble into a big breakthrough.
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We have a lot of openings for people...not just engineers, but people that can help us build research spaceships and production spaceships,
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If you don't have a consensus that it's nonsense, you don't have a breakthrough.
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