All posts by Rand Simberg

Virgin Galactic

Lost in space.

I’d have never put a dime into this company.

[Update a while later]

In comments, some people seem to think that this is reflective of a fundamental problem with suborbital tourism. It is not. It was a problem of management and design decisions. There is a market for suborbital tourism, but neither of the only two companies offering it are properly tapping it. It’s tragic that XCOR couldn’t survive. It only needed a small fraction of the money that’s been wasted on Virgin Galactic.