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Seminar Series
Steve IsakowitzDecember 8, 2015
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My Story…
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“My ambition is to be the world’s most irresistible brand through building inspiring businesses that improve peoples’ lives.”
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Virgin Atlantic
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Virgin Global Flyer
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Opening the Space Frontier…to the rest of us
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SpaceShipTwo
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So…
Who wants to go to
Space?
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The allure of space…
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The view of our planet from space
Taken from SpaceShipOne
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The weightlessness…
ME
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The exhilarating ride…
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Fulfilling a dream
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The Mercury Seven
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Launched on US gov’t rocket Launched on Commercial rocketLaunched on Chinese gov’t rocketLaunched on Russian / Soviet gov’t rocket
… but not very many people
get to do that.
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The prohibitive cost of going into space
$ in millions
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…there is a different way
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Spaceship Designer: Burt Rutan
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World’s First Spaceline
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WhiteKnightTwo
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The Designer of WK2 is….
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SpaceShipTwo
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Innovative Design
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Rocket Motor
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Mission sequence