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George Whitesides: “By 2010, I think the company was, I think, largely a…”

Featuring: George Whitesides, Democratic | U.S. House, California, District 27

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Published | Video Starts at 06:45

So I was a customer first in 2005, and I kind of stayed that way for a bit. And I went off and I did NASA and various other things. And then By 2010, I think the company was, I think, largely a marketing organization at that point. They had started to hire a couple of technical people, but the path ahead was to literally create an aerospace manufacturing company and an aerospace operations company and to do it in the field of human spaceflight. (06:45–06:56)

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Asserts that by 2010, Virgin Galactic was largely a marketing organization.

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