Leave it to Virgin Atlantic billionaire Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson and American aerospace engineer Burt Rutan. For just the price of a modest house they’ll fly you into space on a two and a half hour round trip with five minutes of weightlessness. @ a mere $40,000 per weightless minute. As if real estate wasn’t enough, set your sights on the outer atmosphere and you may be spaceborne as soon as 2011.
Burt Rutan designed Model 76 Voyager, the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling.
Sir Richard Branson started out purveying cut out records from the boot of his car to retail outlets, later selling his Virgin Records to EMI for a billion US.
Flamboyant and competitive, Branson’s Virgin Brand includes over 360 companies.
“My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them…from the perspective of wanting to live life to the full. I felt that I had to attempt it.”
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