What we're talking about here is not just taking rich people to space. We're proving the safety and the viability of space travel. This is the dawn of an new era in space.

It's time we rediscovered the thrill of space,

Most private space project that have existed so far haven't come across the issue of the DDTC, ITAR, and export regulations for these kind of technologies from the United States. We're really the first people who have probably gone through a formal process of this nature and come through the other end of it. So I think that's a good precedent.

Our passengers will experience even faster acceleration than Nasa astronauts. They'll see the blackness of space, and the curvature of the blue planet beneath them, and experience weightlessness.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

They were all talking about this amongst themselves - but it was not something that they shared with their readers. And one reason was that they were afraid of getting in trouble with the press-relations department and having their press passes pulled.