This is nothing but a huge publicity stunt. It will FAIL-GUARANTEED! Furthermore, as an MBA I can say that the business model is not commercially viable and it will fail for sure. Branson has had hundreds of business failures over the years, but he hushes them up and keeps quiet about them. In 2008 last year his Virgin Charter business failed-they used to provide a booking service for private jets. Virgin Megastores in the UK were sold off to a company called Zavvi and they went into liquidation. Virgin Atlantic is 49% owned by Singapore Airlines as they got into trouble. Branson had to sell Virgin Records his record company to EMI records for $1 billion because his airline needed cash! Branson is a successful business man but he is NO WHERE near as successful as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet. If you look at BIG companies like Ernst & Young LLP or PriceWaterHouseCoopers LLP, they make 17 BILLION $ a year - Virgin only make about $3 billion. His total net worth is around 3 or 4 billion, nothing compared to Warren Buffet or Bill Gates who have over £50 billion—they are intelligent people, whos companies make tens of $ billions a year, and are commercially sound and strong. This guy just likes to splash his cash and doesn’t really think about long term sustainablility it seems. So far only 300 people have booked $200,000 flights for a MERE 6 minutes of weightlessness! That is a TOTAL revenue of $60 million and he is spending $400 million to build ‘space’ ships that don’t even go into space. Some one should COMPLAIN to the FTC federal trade commission and say that he is allegedly FALSELY marketing the trip as a SPACE flight! Since the 1960s NASA et al., have been doing weightless flights in converted Boeing aircraft-this is nothing new. This joker is just milking the media for publicity. When I was 16 years old he was my all time idol, but as I grew up I realised he was really just a joke and I kinda lost respect for him.

I KNOW for a FACT that this bearded garden gnome’s venture is going to be one big joke but it generates PUBLICITY for his airline and costs $400 million-if he had more sense he would have spent that on an advertising agency such as Ogilvy & Mather or SAATCHI & SAATCHI instead of looking like a joke when it fails!

Well that is my personal opinion anyway and I add the word allegedly in front of all the above!

HAVE A NICE DAY!

isn’t branson also coming to the copenhagen summit to pose with all those green stars & pols and lecture the little people about how they should lower their consumption levels?

For the 96% of the people that do not have $200,000 -there is a newly FAA approved spaceport located in Jacksonville, Florida known as Cecil Field Spaceport aka The People’s Spaceport.

We hope that after the team of Virgin Galactic safely completes the months of flight testing SpaceShipTwo in the Mojave Desert—- then fly out of the newly FAA approved Cecil Field Spaceport aka The People’s Spaceport located in Jacksonville, Florida.

Imagine a point-to-point sub-orbital spaceflight from Jacksonville, FL and land at Kennedy Space Center! Now that would be an AWESOME flight!