In an interview with British magazine T3, Virgin Galactic chairman Richard Branson again did what we love about him: he waxed optimistic about the future of private commercial space flight.
The launch a decade ago of a civilian manned space program in the United States seemed at the time to be a starry-eyed and quixotic attempt to infuse innovation and entrepreneurship into what had become since the days of Apollo a highly bureaucratic and heavy footed military/corporate partnership. Today, with the last days of the Space Shuttle around the corner and a growing number of successful private space forays complete, Branson, who jumped into the game right off the bat, is looking more like a visionary than a self promoter. (Check out our past coverage of Virgin’s ambitious space enterprise here.)
