Not a customer

Congressman Frank Lucas (R-OK), whose district includes the Oklahoma Spaceport, mentioned it at a town meeting in Enid, Oklahoma on Tuesday, according to an article in the Enid News and Eagle. Lucas described the activities at the spaceport, including plans by “Rocket Plane” [sic] to perform suborbital spaceflights from there. But would Lucas want to […]

A Founder speaks

Alan Walton, a “self-made millionaire” in Connecticut, is one of Virgin Galactic’s initial customers, or “Founders”, and was recently interviewed by the Hartford Courant. A few interesting items he said in the interview: the complete flight (from takeoff to landing) will be two and a half hours long, with two pilots and six passengers; he […]