We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.