steve isakowitz - massachusetts institute of...
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Seminar Series
Steve IsakowitzDecember 8, 2015
My Story…
“My ambition is to be the world’s most irresistible brand through building inspiring businesses that improve peoples’ lives.”
Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Global Flyer
Opening the Space Frontier…to the rest of us
SpaceShipTwo
So…
Who wants to go to
Space?
The allure of space…
The view of our planet from space
Taken from SpaceShipOne
The weightlessness…
ME
The exhilarating ride…
Fulfilling a dream
The Mercury Seven
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.
The prohibitive cost of going into space
$ in millions
…there is a different way
Spaceship Designer: Burt Rutan
World’s First Spaceline
WhiteKnightTwo
The Designer of WK2 is….
SpaceShipTwo
Innovative Design
Rocket Motor
Mission sequence