Virgin Galactic - 9783319092614

Name: Virgin Galactic - 9783319092614
Brand: Springer International Publishing AG

Springer International Publishing AG

Virgin GalacticThe First Ten Years\nAuthor(s): Erik Seedhouse\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer International Publishing AG\nISBN-13: 9783319092614, 978-3319092614\nSynopsis\nThirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014, was predicting that his spaceship company Virgin Galactic would soon open the space frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists and space tourists. With more than 600 seats sold at $250,000 each, what started off as a dream to send people just for the excitement to look back and marvel at Earth, was on the cusp of finally being turned into a business.\n\nThen, on October 21, 2014, tragedy struck. SpaceShipTwo was on its most ambit.