USA Today takes a look today at the various people who have signed up to fly on Virgin Galactic, the usual mix of stars and starry-eyed folks, many of whom (like Victoria Principal) have gotten significant publicity already for signing up to fly on SpaceShipTwo. Virgin does reveal that they will be giving away two tickets: one to Stephen Hawking and the other to James Lovelock, who proposed the “Gaia” model of earth as a living organism. (Lovelock is profiled in the USA Today article.) A New York travel agent who is among those accredited by Virgin Galactic who has sold two tickets so far (to a hedge fund manager and a financial company CEO) said he’s found success marketing it as a “thrill sell”: “They’re going for the Wow!”
Jeff, I looked on the Virgin website, but didn’t see a list of the “founders”. I have seen several articles that mention a few people here and a few people there, but do you know of any comprehensive list (official or otherwise) of the founders?