Illustration by Robert G Fresson “We would love to finish what we started some years ago … I think millions of people would one day love the chance to go to space.” Richard Branson, mourning the death of the pilot killed in the Mojave desert last Friday, nevertheless managed to keep his eye on the prize. It is, doubtless, what the pilot Michael Albury would have wanted. Or at least, one assumes that he wouldn’t have wanted his death to derail the project. Whether he would have wanted it smothered in the language of bogus communitarianism is another question. “Millions of people” … “the chance to go to space…” – whatever they would or would not love, millions of people will never be able to...
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