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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
As part of its founding mission to support aerospace education,
The Wings Club created the annual ‘Sight’ Lecture. It was initiated
by General Harold R. Harris to provide the opportunity for
an outstanding contributor to the advancement of aviation
and aerospace to discuss their views.
The Wings Club Foundation expresses its thanks to L3Harris
Technologies for their generous support of the publication
of this ‘Sight’ Lecture book.
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WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION
‘SIGHT’ LECTURE
FORTY-NINTH WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION
GENERAL HAROLD R. HARRIS
‘SIGHT’ LECTURE
The Wings Club Foundation wishes to thank Virgin Galactic for
their invaluable contributions to this ‘Sight’ Lecture book.
Special appreciation to the Wings Club Board for its support and
Kenneth E. Gazzola, Past Wings Club President and current Chairman of the
Historical and Education Committee, for coordinating the ‘Sight’ Lecture.
Copyright 2020
The Wings Club Foundation
New York
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States
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WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION
‘SIGHT’ LECTURE
FOREWORD
Igor Sikorsky 1964
Jerome C. Hunsaker 1965
William Littlewood 1966
Sir William Hildred 1967
Wernher Von Braun 1968
Grover Loening 1969
Francis Rodwell Banks 1970
C.R. Smith 1971
Sir Peter Masefield 1972
William P. Gwinn 1973
Edward C. Wells 1974
Wayne Parrish 1975
H.R.H. The Prince of
The Netherlands 1976
Juan Trippe 1977
Richard M. Jackson 1978
Knut Hagrup 1979
Robert H. Hotz 1980
Senator Barry Goldwater 1981
Jerome Lederer 1982
Willis M. Hawkins 1983
General Harold R. Harris 1984
Gerhard Neumann 1985
Joseph F. Sutter 1986
Ralph H. Robbins 1987
Neil A. Armstrong 1988
Sergei I Sikorsky 1989
Sanford N. McDonnell 1990
Max E. Bleck 1991
R. Dixon Speas 1992
Thomas P. Poberezny 1993
Russell E. Meyer 1994
David R. Hinson 1995
Charles H. Kaman 1996
Al Ueltschi 1997
Admiral Donald D. Engen 1998
Brian Rowe 1999
Ronald E. G. Davies 2000
Joseph F. Sutter 2007
Fernando Alonso 2008
Michael D. Griffin 2009
Governor Tom Ridge 2010
General Duncan J. McNabb 2011
Frederick W. Smith 2012
Marillyn A. Hewson 2013
Robert L. Crandall 2015
John Leahy 2016
Jim Albaugh 2017
Jeff Bezos 2019
George Whitesides 2020
The Wings Club Foundation is privileged to have as its forty-ninth
‘Sight’ Lecturer, Mr. George Whitesides.
Mr. Whitesides is the CEO of Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial
spaceline, and The Spaceship Company, a manufacturer of advanced space
vehicles. Virgin Galactic was founded in 2004 by Sir Richard Branson.
With its innovative spacecraft, the company seeks to transform access
to space to change the world for good.
Prior to Virgin Galactic, Mr. Whitesides served as Chief of Staff for NASA.
Upon departure from the American space agency, he received the
Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award the agency confers.
He previously served as chair of the Reusable Launch Vehicle Working Group
for the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee and
as a member of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University
and the board of Virgin Unite USA.
Mr. Whitesides has testified on American space policy before the
United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives,
and the President’s Commission on Implementation of United States
Space Exploration Policy.
The Wings Club Foundation is honored to have Mr. Whitesides
as the 2020 General Harold R. Harris ‘Sight’ Lecturer.
David Davenport
President
The Wings Club Foundation
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February 27, 2020 ‘Sight’ Lecture
A letter to my grandchildren.
My dad, your great grand dad, was
an
extraordinary man full of wise words.
He
would often remind me that life is wonderful,
and
it’s that simple truth which has driven me as I
built
businesses, raised my family, and embarked upon
my many adventures.
You’re at the very start of life. It is an incredible gift
and it is there for the taking. It will deliver highs and lows but by living
it to the full, by always trying to do the right thing, by keeping a childlike
sense of adventure, it will indeed be wonderful. I used to think of space as a
destination, but I now realize it’s a journey with some amazing milestones
along the way.
Your lives will be transformed by space and it will give your generation the
planetary perspective on which the future of humanity rests, that we are all in
this together, fellow travelers on Spaceship Earth.
Today, we pass the most significant of all as our beautiful VSS Unity, along
with the hopes and dreams of so many, became the first spaceship built for
regular passenger service to put humans into space.
Virgin Galactic has shown that when you set off on challenging but important
ventures, exceptional people come forward to join the journey, people who are
consistently by your side and on your side, people who share your dreams, and
people who help make them reality.
As I watch Unity and her brave pilots soar upwards into space today, my vision
blurred by tears, I could hear your great granddad whisper once again in my
ear. Life is indeed wonderful.
A letter to my grandchildren.
My dad, your great grandad, was an extraordinary
man full of wise words. He would often remind me
that life is wonderful, and it’s that simple truth which
has driven me as I built businesses, raised my family,
and embarked upon my many adventures.
Sir Richard Branson
You’re at the very start of life. It is an incredible gift
and it is there for the taking. It will deliver highs
and lows but by living it to the full, by always
trying to do the right thing, by keeping a childlike sense of
adventure, it will indeed be wonderful. I used to think of space as
a destination, but I now realize it’s a journey with some amazing
milestones along the way. Your lives will be transformed by
space and it will give your generation the planetary perspective
on which the future of humanity rests, that we are all in this
together, fellow travelers on Spaceship Earth.
Today, we pass the most significant of all as our beautiful
VSS Unity, along with the hopes and dreams of so many,
became the first spaceship built for regular passenger service
to put humans into space.
Virgin Galactic has shown that when you set off on challenging
but important ventures, exceptional people come forward to
join the journey, people who are consistently by your side
and on your side, people who share your dreams, and people
who help make them reality.
As I watch Unity and her brave pilots soar upwards into
space today, my vision blurred by tears, I could hear your
great grandad whisper once again in my ear. Life is
indeed wonderful.
PRESENTATION by
GEORGE WHITESIDES
Hello, everybody. I hope you enjoyed
the video as much as I did. My name
is George Whitesides. I am the CEO
of Virgin Galactic and it’s a real
pleasure to be here.
For the pilots in the audience, and
I’m sure we have a few, that right
barrel roll that you saw at the end
was fully permitted and on the
test card.
It’s an honor to be speaking to
The Wings Club. And I really look
forward today to sharing with you
what Virgin Galactic is all about, our
vision for opening space to change
the world for good, our progress
towards becoming the first space
line for Earth, and the tantalizing
possibilities that the future holds
for the company.
George Whitesides, CEO
Of course, before I begin, I wanted
to say once again what an honor it is to be here with The Wings Club which,
as you know, was founded nearly a half century ago with the important goal
of promoting the advancement and development of aeronautics. And to serve
as a forum for discussion on aviation, how timely it is then to be able to offer
these thoughts on the world changing
developments in spaceflight and
advanced aeronautics occurring today.
And as I was saying to the folks at our
table here that I think it’s really a fun
opportunity for us, as a company, that
integrates both an airplane, a winged
vehicle, and a rocket plane, to be
able to share some thoughts to
The Wings Club.
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You know Richard’s vision,
across all of the Virgin
brands, is that business is
done for good and we’re
no different at Virgin
Galactic. Since day one, our
underlying goal has been
to make positive change
in the world.
We’re doing that today
by democratizing
Richard Branson and George Whitesides
access to space through
our revolutionary
SpaceShipTwo System, which is providing low cost, reliable, and quickly
repeatable, suborbital spaceflight. The democratization of space is at the heart
of our business and something that I know my teammates and I hold as a
personal passion and a professional commitment.
WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo Fly Over the San Francisco Bay
In many ways, we are a bridging technology towards a future of not just space
access but also, I think, high speed point to point travel and I look forward to
talking a bit about those possibilities as we go through today’s talk. We’re living
in an era of tremendous growth in the commercial space industry and that’s not
going to be news to any of you.
This is a sector that is expected to reach
nearly 5% of the United States GDP by
2040. Just as exciting as that, is that
we’re on the cusp of a true revolution in
affordable and regular spaceflight. Routine
and truly cost-effective spaceflight for
people in payloads has long been a dream,
a hope of the space community. And today,
it is tantalizingly close to being realized.
Vehicles such as our SpaceShipTwo and
others are poised to change the paradigm of
spaceflight bringing unprecedented access
to space for new communities and enabling
novel ways of doing research and business
in space, all to the benefit of life on Earth.
SpaceShipTwo Unity Flying Free in the
New Mexico Airspace for the First Time
It’s easy to understand why there’s a strong fascination with spaceflight, especially
human spaceflight. The fascination is nearly universal. You’ll be hard pressed to
meet someone who doesn’t find wonder staring into the star studded sky, or to
find a kid who doesn’t want to grow up to be an astronaut one day, even though
my kids tell me that they all want to be “YouTubers”.
Space fills us with an insatiable curiosity.
We’re drawn by an innate craving to learn
its undiscovered lands and new worlds as
the science popularized Carl Sagan put it.
By building a transportation infrastructure
for access to suborbital space, Virgin
Galactic seeks to turn our future astronauts’
fascination and the space scientists’ curiosity
into a reachable meaningful reality.
Virgin Galactic Makes Space for Second
Time in Ten Weeks with Three on Board
Routine access to space will transform the relationship that we, as individuals,
and as a community, and even as a planet, have with space, and we hope with
each other. For entrepreneurs, it will provide novel opportunities to explore
new business cases involving spaceflight and research, iterate, and develop
new consumer technologies.
For the vast majority of our customers, it will provide the first realistic opportunity
to experience spaceflight firsthand. It’s difficult to overstate how important we
believe that experience will be. The overview effect is rather well known. It’s the
profound realization upon seeing earth from space, that there are no borders
drawn into the sand, that our world is a fragile gem of blue and green suspended
in the black of space.
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There is, in fact, according to an analyst, an addressable market of millions of
individuals who may one day want to fly with us. Let’s see how we fare in this
room. Raise your hand if cost and safety is no issue, if you’d like to experience
space. I knew it was going to be my kind a crowd. So good to be with you.
We’re poised to exponentially increase the number of people who have
seen our planet from space. That’s a small but tangible step toward the true
democratization of spaceflight. It’s a meaningful leap towards opening space
to change the world for good.
View from Space on Virgin Galactic’s First Spaceflight
Astronauts have frequently talked about coming back to space. With a renewed
sense of community and oneness with humankind, a newfound appreciation for
our home planet, and the importance of keeping, and caring, and preserving
it, Virgin Galactic seeks to provide that experience, those core realizations, to
everyone, not just those who’ve been deemed to have the traditional right stuff.
In fact, we’ve come to learn that flying aboard SpaceShipTwo is widely accessible
to nearly all people. You don’t need to be an expertly trained sharp-eyed fighter
pilot to comfortably handle the very slight stresses of suborbital spaceflight,
nor to safely move around the cabin and make the most of the microgravity
experience at apogee.
Providing the astronaut experience to nontraditional astronauts is the key to
the Virgin Galactic vision. That is because when everyone, whether that be our
political leaders, businesspeople, entrepreneurs, public figures, scientists, our
neighbors, our friends, when they share firsthand the perspectives that astronauts
have long reported, the world becomes a little less big.
Finding answers to the issues we face here on
earth seem a little less challenging. Staring back
upon our planet from space, our differences seem
not so wide. Only 575 people have been to space
in the entirety of humanity’s space faring history.
Virgin Galactic currently has over 600 future
astronauts who have already put down deposits
to fly, and thousands more have expressed to us
an interest in doing so.
And of course, routine robust access to the valuable microgravity of suborbital
space will have a transformative impact on space science in the way that
the research community interacts with space. What we’ve seen through
SpaceShipTwo’s flights and the flights of other vehicles, is that suborbital
spaceflight provides researchers and scientists an ideal mixture of ease of
accessibility and cost affordability, with gentle loads and sustained exposure
to high quality microgravity, a Goldilocks zone of sorts for space science.
This coupled with the services that Virgin Galactic provides its research customers,
processes personnel facilities, offers a routine, reliable, and responsive service
allowing for experiments to be repeated rapidly and frequently if necessary, and
to be tended in flight by one or more researchers.
We believe this capability will enable scientific
experiments as well as educational research
programs to be carried out by a broader range of
individuals, organizations, and institutions, than
have ever had the experience before. One of the
fun things that I do is I periodically interact with
the leadership of the New Mexico Educational
Institution, since we’ll be based down in New Mexico.
And one of the fun brainstorms that we’ve had is what if you come to college at
NMSU or some other regional college, or maybe even some other college around
the United States of America, as a freshman, you begin planning your experiment,
pay attention students in the back here.
You begin planning your experiment and then you build that experiment in your
sophomore year, and then perhaps junior year or senior year. You fly to space
with that experiment and you operate that experience. How exciting that would
be? How much interest we would develop for STEM subjects and for aerospace
engineering if we could put such a program in place. It’s very exciting to think
about it.
Our team aspires to afford anybody with a bright idea or a novel experiment with
the opportunity to actually do it, to actually fly that experiment. No matter if it’s a
NASA scientist developing a thermal control system for landing on Mars, or a fifthgrade
classroom curious about whether lightning bugs light up in low gravity.
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VSS Unity Rockets to Space on
Historic First Spaceflight
So, it was actually just a little over a year
ago that we successfully flew SpaceShipTwo
VSS Unity on her second flight to space. It
was a remarkable flight. One worthy of the
history books and indeed into the history
books it went. It was the second flight of
Americans to space from American soil
in eight years since the retirement of the
Space Shuttle. The first, of course, being
our test flight in late 2018.
VSS Unity Touches Down
So now I’d like to address another aspiration we hold in our path towards
changing the world for good. Ultra-high-speed global air mobility, that is point to
point supersonic or hypersonic passenger flight. Right now, today, to fly from Los
Angeles to Tokyo, you need to set aside essentially a whole day.
A modern-day business jet takes up to 11 hours to complete that flight. That’s
11 hours, in the air, away from your friends, families, and colleagues, away
from your responsibilities, your duties, your passions, your hobbies. Flying
today takes up much of the most valuable resource we have as individuals
and as businesses, “time”.
Imagine now, taking off from Los Angeles at noon and being in Tokyo in time for
dinner. Imagine traveling halfway across the world and still having the afternoon
for your meeting, your visit, your experience abroad. It’s in the realm of the
possible. High speed passenger flight could change an 11-hour flight into one
merely two or three hours long.
Point to point travel will make this large world of ours seem smaller, bringing people
together faster. This is the capability we are fascinated with and looking forward
to working on over the coming months and years. So clearly, we as a team and
as a company, with no small goals and lots of ambition, and have demonstrated
accomplishments that speak to our ability to achievement, achieve them.
What I’d like to do just really briefly is because I’m quite proud of what the team
has done, is to talk to you a little bit about what we’ve done over the past year
and how we plan to go forward into 2020. 2020 is shaping up to be a landmark
year for the suborbital spaceflight sector, and especially so, for Virgin Galactic.
It was also the first flight of a
commercial spacecraft with a three
person commercial crew, the first
flight of a non-pilot astronaut aboard
a commercial spacecraft, and the first
time that a woman has flown to space
on board a commercial spacecraft,
our chief astronaut trainer, Beth
Moses. We’re immensely proud
of that.
Between this flight and the one
that preceded it, Virgin Galactic has
added five individuals to the list of
people who’ve been awarded FAA
Commercial Astronaut Wings, including Beth, the first woman to be so pinned.
As a quick aside, I do think it’s a testament to the novelty and challenge of what
it is that we’re working to achieve that this flight was so monumental.
Richard Branson Celebrates with the Team
Virgin Galactic’s Crew from Second Spaceflight
Receive Commercial Astronaut Wings: Chief Pilot,
Dave Mackay, Pilot, Mike ‘Sooch’ Masucci and Chief
Astronaut Instructor Beth Moses
I’m immensely proud and humbled
by the ingenuity and talent of my
colleagues in their hard work making
dreams take flight along with all of
those who’ve helped along the way.
Our February test flight wasn’t Virgin
Galactic’s only major milestone of the
last year though. Indeed, in some ways,
it was only the beginning.
In preparation for our transition into regular flight, we began relocating the team
to the site of our commercial operations, the Gateway to Space in Spaceport
America in New Mexico. And I don’t know how many of you have seen the
pictures of this beautiful facility, but it was designed by Sir Norman Foster, and
it is truly a remarkable facility.
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Far from an internal exercise, this first round of the
program involved a cadre of our future astronaut
customers. And we’ve been connected now to our
future astronauts for over a decade, as I was speaking
to the folks here at the head table. I was actually, in
fact, one of those customers originally that’s how
I got connected to the company.
I bought a ticket for myself and for my wife, and
we look forward to flying as soon as we can. But as
I watched this group of wonderful people light up
this new phase of preparation, it spoke to the true
importance of what it is we’re doing.
The Virgin Galactic Spaceflight System in front of Spaceport America
I would love for as many of you to come by, whether as astronauts or not, to come
visit it. Because I really think that as people who appreciate the aviation sector
and the aviation history, you will see, and you’ll get a sense of the sort of the
monumental nature of what we’re building in New Mexico and with our vehicles.
What I think is most important is that last
month, we ferried Unity to Spaceport America,
the first time our spaceship had touched
ground in New Mexico, its new home. Beyond
flight, our team made and is continuing to
make significant strides to prepare for our
upcoming commercial operations and in
growing out our business.
SpaceShipTwo Unity Relocates to
Virgin Galactic’s Gateway to Space,
Spaceport America, New Mexico
We announced a partnership with Under
Armour for our custom designed personalized
flight suits which each of our future
Full Range Virgin Galactic and Under Armour
Spacewear System for Private Astronauts
astronauts will wear during their flights.
And also, working in concert with
Under Armour, our pilots, and our expert
medical and training staff, we kicked
off the first iteration of our Astronaut
Readiness Program, a short training
regime which will familiarize our
customers with the experience of
spaceflight and prepare them for
time aboard SpaceShipTwo.
Virgin Galactic’s Second
Spaceship Weight on Wheels
Back in Mojave, where our teammates at The
Spaceship Company remain firmly rooted, significant
progress has been made on building out a true fleet
of vehicles. In early January, we achieved Weight on
Wheels for our second spaceship, all major structural
elements of the vehicle being assembled, and the
vehicle carrying its own weight on its own landing
gear for the very first time.
We hit this milestone considerably faster than was the case when we were
constructing the first spaceship, a pace achieved through a more efficient modular
assembly process, and of course, the benefit of experience. Meanwhile, our third
spaceship is not very far behind with over 50% of the structural and system parts
already fabricated.
The construction of the
space line underlines
our ambitions. Having
several ships in our fleet,
each independent, each
interchangeable, means we
can hit true reusability in
our systems and achieve
a genuine routineness in
our cadence. With several
spaceships and consistent
service, we can fully cater
Virgin Galactic Fleet
to both future astronauts and
to our future astronaut manifest while accommodating regular flights of
research payloads.
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All the while, we’ll conclude installation
of the spaceships final cabin in
preparation of the customer experience.
From there, we would be in a position to
fly Richard Branson.
Meanwhile, our colleagues at The
Spaceship Company will continue to make
steady progress on the upcoming ships in
our fleet taking them through the rigors
of flight testing as we prepare them for
the eventual entrance in the commercial
service.
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SPCE) visits the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
to celebrate its Listing. Richard Branson rings The First Trade Bell.
Clearly, the last year has been tremendous for Virgin Galactic. We entered 2019
as a privately funded company with a single crewed spaceflight accomplished and
a commercial headquarters still under construction. Today, just over a year later,
we’re the world’s first publicly listed human spaceflight company operating from
the world’s only purpose-built commercial spaceport, with two remarkable space
flights completed and five FAA recognized commercial astronauts on our payroll.
SpaceShipTwo Takes to the Skies for
its First Glide from New Mexico
Yet our team is eager for what
promises to be an even more
exciting year ahead and is singularly
and steadfastly focused on safely
and successfully achieving the
milestones that remain in our
critical path. With Unity relocated
to Spaceport America, we’re
preparing for the final stages of
our flight test program.
We’ll start with glide flights
from our new operating base
to familiarize our operations team with the airspace and local ground control.
Once we’re satisfied with results of those tests, we’ll carry out a number of
rocket powered tests from the spaceport to finalize our evaluation of
Unity’s performance.
The Start of the Interactive Astronaut
Space Walk at the Gateway to Space
So, what does the future hold? First and
foremost, we’ll continue growing our pool
of future astronauts. Just this week, we
announced our One Small Step initiative
in preparation for reopening spaceflight ticket sales. We’re giving those who are
serious about flying the opportunity to register for a small refundable deposit and
be at the front of the line for firm seat reservations once they become available.
We’ve seen consistent and increasing demand from around the world for the
opportunity to fly onboard SpaceShipTwo. In fact, in the 14 months since our first
spaceflight, we’ve had approximately 8,000 flight reservation requests, and that’s
more than double the number we reported in September last year.
Our One Small Step announcement and initiative is a giant leap towards growing
our thriving future astronaut community. Meanwhile, we’ll continue providing
payload flights for the scientific community while working to continually expand
and enhance the scope and the quality of research that we’ll be able to do onboard
SpaceShipTwo.
As some of you may know, Virgin
Galactic has already proven a capable
payload flight provider. On both of
our test flights to space, we integrated
and carried several academic industry
and space agency research payloads
through NASA’s Flight Opportunity
Program. These cutting-edge
experiments covered a wide range of
research areas from life support system
development to electromagnetic field
investigations and represented a cross
section of promising space exploration
technologies that could benefit future NASA missions.
Virgin Galactic’s Carrier Aircraft, VMS Eve
and VSS Unity Prepare for Flight
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Our contribution to the space science mission
is exciting and something that’s internationally
recognized. In fact, late last year, we announced a
landmark contract with the Italian Air Force for a
commercial human tended research flight. And this is
something that I’m really excited about because in the
past, one of the challenges with space science is that
it has not been tremendously iterative. Right?
What we offer is a fundamentally new paradigm where
people can build a payload, put it onboard the ship, fly
it up to space, see how it does, bring it down, maybe
iterate it, and then the next week, fly to space again.
And so, you will have a fundamentally new pace of
George Whitesides, CEO Space Science exploration. This can be tremendously
exciting. It’s good for business as well. That’s a group
of people that like to fly a lot. But it’s also good for the future of humanity because
we’ll be able to make more rapid iterative progress in space science.
Moving forward, we’ll be working together and leveraging our mutual talents to
broaden and transform commercial space access and global travel technologies
in ways not previously explored or imagined. We hope to develop a fleet of
commercially viable and environmentally sustainable vehicles with global reach
that will rapidly connect people around the world.
What we envision is a fleet of winged vehicles that integrate into existing air space
and are compatible with current airport infrastructure to ensure their accelerated
introduction. Our focused engineering and project teams are experts in high speed
mobility, and their experience and insights will be valuable assets as we develop
this future of air travel.
And like any novel engineering challenge, our work will create meaningful
valuable IP in material science, analysis tools, propulsion, sustainable fuels,
manufacturing techniques, GNC (Guidance, Navigation and Control) and other
high technologies for high speed applications.
So, I’d like to leave you with a closing thought, as Richard said in the video at
the beginning, we tend to think of a space as a destination, but really, in many
ways, it’s a journey. Working with my colleagues at Virgin Galactic and with
this community has been a journey of a lifetime.
This team, our supporters, and our investors, are on a journey to build a
revolutionary system. One designed around the core principles and visions
I’ve discussed here today. I’m glad it’s a vision that we can share with you
and to share with the world. And I’m really excited about the future.
Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company team pose for photographer in
Mojave, CA. Virgin Spaceship Unity is unveiled in Mojave, California, Friday
February 19, 2016. VSS Unity is the first vehicle to be manufactured by The Spaceship
Company, Virgin Galactic’s wholly owned manufacturing arm, and is the second
vehicle of its design ever constructed. VSS Unity was unveiled in FAITH
(Final Assembly Integration Test Hangar), the Mojave-based home of manufacturing
and testing for Virgin Galactic’s human space flight program.
VSS Unity featured a new silver and white livery and was guided into position
by one of the company’s support Range Rovers, provided by its
exclusive automotive partner Jaguar Land Rover.
Thank you very much.
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February 27, 2020
George Whitesides
The 2020 ‘Sight’ Lecture was well attended by
Wings Club Foundation members and guests.
George Whitesides, David Davenport, Ken Gazzola
David Davenport, George Whitesides
David Davenport
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George Whitesides and the students from
New York University (NYU)
Pratt & Whitney Representatives
George Whitesides
Kyle James, The Honorable Walter H. Roban JP, MP, Deputy Premier
Minister of Home Affairs, Government of The Bahamas,
Mikaela Pearman, Hanneke Weitering
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Gary Krauthamer, Scott Johnson, John Stack
Randal (Bob) Craft, Franklin Pray, Juan Diaz
Mementos of the event
Greg Hamilton, David Davenport, Dan Yuen
Scott Johnson, Ken Gazzola, Linda Rucconich, Craig Oxman
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Mementos of the event
Allison Daniels, Katie Harrington
George Whitesides
Jeff Kim, Nadia Serves, Joseph Pabst
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The Honorable Walter H. Roban JP, MP, Deputy Premier Minister of
Home Affairs, Government of The Bahamas, George Whitesides
Karen Berg, Gary Krauthamer, Ann Fasriggi, John Davidson
Sheelagh Wylie, Courtney Ruttle
Maxine Lubner, Larry Rooney, Bob Harrell
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Bruce Nobles, Marie Rosa, Gary Krauthamer
David Davenport, Ben Lehberger, George Whitesides
Seated: Gary Krauthamer, George Whitesides, David Davenport, Franklin Pray
Standing: Bob Craft, Bruce Nobles, Matt Greene, Greg Hamilton
Reception
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