Scottish - Aviator | 1957 -
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.
David Mackay
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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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From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.
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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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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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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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I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.
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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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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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