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George Whitesides: “This vehicle was the precursor to our whole business.”

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

The Next Frontier for Space Tourism - George T.Whitesides, Virgin Galactic

Published February 11, 2021 | Video Starts at 16:38

So this vehicle that you see here, which is now in the air and Space museum in the United States in Washington, DC, This vehicle was the precursor to our whole business. And I'm not kidding when I say, Richard basically said, when this goes to space, we're going to use this technology and we're going to create a real business. (16:38–16:45)

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Asserts that the initial vehicle was foundational to Virgin Galactic's business.

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“I really think that having people go to space will increase that perspective. As more and more people are able to see Earth for themselves…”
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“I like to say that over the first sort of half century of human spaceflight, we have averaged around ten human beings going into space every…”
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“By having a reusable space system, we have the opportunity to lower the cost of space access in a significant way.”
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“The advent of reusable space systems, which you now see starting to happen across the space industry, is a revolutionary moment.”
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“SpaceShipTwo... was the first commercial space vehicle, that is a vehicle built for commercial service to put humans into space.”
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“The pilots of that 1st, 1st flight were awarded astronaut wings by the US government.”
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“We've gotten five people now who have gotten their official astronaut wings.”
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“This is a picture of Spaceport America, which is our facility down in southern New Mexico in the southwestern part of the United States.”
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“It's a beautiful facility that was designed to allow us to have multiple spaceships operating and going to space.”
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“One of the exciting things about space in general is that there is a lot of interest in the investment community now.”
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“We went public on the New York Stock Exchange.”
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“The vehicle re-enters the earth's atmosphere and becomes essentially a glider.”
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“There are a bunch of probes arriving at Mars right now, which is a very exciting time.”
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“I hope everybody tunes into the landing of the NASA probe landing, which I think is next week.”
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“There are these incredible constellations of satellites being launched now, and there's one from SpaceX, and then there's a few others as…”
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“That will be really important for remote learning and remote medicine and for learning about our climate and learning about things like…”
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“Further out, there's the prospect of actually getting spectroscopy on the atmospheres of planets around other stars, which is going to be…”
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“I think it's a very possible thing over the next few decades that we may be able to detect biosignatures around other stars.”
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“In terms of low Earth orbit commercialization, you know, thinking about different ways that low Earth orbit can be used, both with people…”
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“NASA and other space agencies are launching a series of robotic probes.”
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“The Artemis program of NASA aspires to put people on the moon.”
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“We really need to make sure we're understanding the changes happening in the earth's climate.”
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“We can give information to policymakers as they think about how we address some of these really crucial issues around global warming.”
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“I do think that people seem pretty serious about doing some lunar, you know, greater lunar exploration.”
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“I think it's going to be very important to do more climate science to really understand how the earth's climate is changing over time.”
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“I think NASA and NOAA and other agencies that use space resources will be really important as humanity figures these things out.”
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“I think the longtime prize of sending a human being to Mars is entirely reasonable within our lifetimes.”
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“Everybody can put up satellites now into low Earth orbit.”
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“NASA's got a lot of great programs for working between agencies.”
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“It's possible for universities, as long as it's done in the proper way, to cooperate internationally when it comes to space science…”
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“The analysis of space data can be done on an international basis.”
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“Many of the problems that we're dealing with are fundamentally planetary.”
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“There are some really exciting efforts to increase the representation of underrepresented people in different aspects through scholarships…”
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“We're better when we have really diverse teams and that's just been proven again and again.”
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