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I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
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Mars
Moon
To The Moon
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From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.
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Aeroplanes
Early Age
Very Early Age
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I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.
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Space Travel
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I do have a bit of a fear of heights. But I don't get scared of heights when I am flying a plane.
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Flying
Heights
Plane
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I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.
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Dream
Space
Travel
First Time
Space Travel
Time Space Experience
Time Experience Space
Space Time Experience
Wait
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By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'
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Astronaut
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In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.
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Aircraft
Plans
Advance
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I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before.
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Evolve
Vehicle
Space People More
Watched
More People
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I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic.
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Engines
Flight
Flying
Safe
Across
Atlantic
Pretend
Getting
Spaceship
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When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
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Apollo
Moon
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I've been lucky enough to have flown some very interesting aircraft in the past, but SpaceShipTwo is far and away the most exciting of them all.
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Aircraft
Flown
In The Past
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Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.
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Space
Flight
Realised
Unlikely
Manned
Pilot
Programme
Qualification
Test
Test Pilot
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We go up just into space - space is most commonly accepted to be 100 kilometres above the earth's surface, and we go up just beyond that to about 350,000 ft.
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Accepted
Above
Beyond
Commonly
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For Virgin Galactic's customers, it is transportation to the most amazing experience of their lives. I very much look forward to sending some Scots into space.
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Most Amazing
Transportation
Amazing Experience
Sending
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I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.
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Space
Exploring
Landing
Moon
Planets
Watched
Looked
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I would say if you do have ambitions, don't just wait around. Go out and make yourself as well-qualified as possible so you can take that rare opportunity when it comes along.
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Ambition
Rare
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I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.
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Space
Astronaut
Boundaries
Frustrated
Grew
Humans
Landing
Mars
Moon
No Boundaries
Life Time Space
Living
All My Life
Lots
Life Space Time
My Life
Seemed
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I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village.
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Air
Air Force
Force
Scotland
Village
Lots
Brought
North
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I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.
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Space
Astronaut
Flight
Mars
Moon
After
Did
Door
Manned
Programme
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I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.
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Air
Air Force
Apollo
Black
Black And White
Classroom
Decided
Flying
Force
Huge
Impact
Landing
Moon
Remember
School
White
Tv
Could
Watch
Still
Huge Impact
Join
Obviously
Pilot
Sets
Test
Test Pilot
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It's very sad that there's going to be a hiatus in manned space flight from the U.S. The Shuttle was a fantastic, hugely complex vehicle. It was inevitable it would come to an end, but this is the opportunity for the commercial world to get involved. As the Shuttle era ends, another window of opportunity opens.
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Opportunity
Sad
Space
Fantastic
Flight
Hiatus
Inevitable
Involved
Vehicle
Window
Commercial
Complex
Hugely
Manned
Opens
Shuttle
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