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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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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