Technology

NASA Administrator

31 Dec 2021 2 2

Pongsakorn Tongtaveenan

Inserted 3 years ago

“Chinese miners got rid of their machines and the price collapsed by 30 percent. Bitcoin is the gold of the digital world. But a mining rig is like gold mining stocks: you're paid dividends according to the gold price.”

Thai entrepreneur

29 Dec 2021 6 3

Peter Smith

Inserted 3 years ago

“New York is a great city. But Miami was an easy choice for us. It's the gateway to Latin America. It's on the East Coast time zone. And more importantly, it's probably the most excited city in the world about crypto right now.”

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Co-founder and CEO of Blockchain.com

26 Dec 2021 4 3

Klaus Pontipiddan

Inserted 3 years ago

“It was just beautiful to see everything went off without a hitch. We hope that we can now see the first galaxies formed in the universe almost 13-and-a-half billion years ago.”

Scientist involved in the telescope Webb Project

25 Dec 2021 4 1

Stephane Israel

Inserted 3 years ago

“We launch for humanity this morning. After Webb, we will never see the skies in quite the same way.”

Arianespace CEO

25 Dec 2021 3 1

Manuel Rapalo

Inserted 3 years ago

“Scientists are also going to be able to examine the atmospheres of planets and determine whether or not planets could not only be habitable and suitable for humans to possibly one day colonise, but to determine whether or not those conditions are optimal for life.”

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Kourou, French Guiana

25 Dec 2021 5 1

Martin Ward

Inserted 3 years ago

“For the thousands of astronomers across the world, we must now be patient for many weeks. One can say that this is just the end of the beginning … The best is yet to come, we hope, over the next 10 years, including discoveries that we have not even imagined. Watch this space.”

Durham University's Professor

25 Dec 2021 3 1

Bill Nelson

Inserted 3 years ago

“It's going to give us a better understanding of our universe and our place in it: who we are, what we are, the search that's eternal.”

NASA Administrator

25 Dec 2021 3 1

Josef Aschbacher

Inserted 3 years ago

“We have delivered a Christmas gift to humanity. With this telescope we are enabling new science. This was a special moment, nerve-racking but successful in the end.”

European Space Agency’s director general

25 Dec 2021 2 1

Homei Miyashita

Inserted 3 years ago

“In the Covid-19 era, this kind of technology can enhance the way people connect and interact with the outside world. The goal is to make it possible for people to have the experience of something like eating at a restaurant on the other side of the world, even while staying at home.”

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Professor and Dean of the Department of Advanced Media Science, Faculty of Comprehensive Mathematics, Meiji University

23 Dec 2021 1 3

Sridhar Ramaswamy

Inserted 3 years ago

“There is a giant sucking sound coming from crypto. It feels a bit like the 1990s and the birth of the internet all over again. It's that early, that chaotic and that much full of opportunity.”

Chief executive of search engine start-up Neeva and former Google executive

20 Dec 2021 2 2

Justin Sun

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Caribbean has a huge potential to become a very good place for entrepreneurship, and also be the next Singapore. The reason is, Caribbean states are very close to the United States, which I think is very important. But also it is important you are not in the United States. If you are in the United States, you are going to fall into a lot of very strict regulation, and also taxation. In the U.S., the regulatory environment is not good to cryptocurrency.”

Founder of the Tron cryptocurrency platform

17 Dec 2021 (approx) 5 2

Greg Foss

Inserted 3 years ago

“There's a component of it that's sensitive to Bitcoin price but in theory, the difficulty adjustment should allow miners to make money regardless of what the Bitcoin price is. However, if Bitcoin does 'do its thing' and rises to the upside, then the bond's appeal will rise manifold. Those bonds are going to trade on the open market at a much higher rate than six and a half percent. They'll trade at a lower yield at a higher price because the six and a half will be extremely attractive so people will bid up the price of those bonds and the yield conversely will decline.”

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Bitcoin strategist

13 Dec 2021 4 2

Aaron Koenig

Inserted 3 years ago

“He [Nayib Bukele] made the announcement at a huge party on the beach. Funding for the mammoth undertaking to start in 2022 is to be raised through the sale of a sovereign Bitcoin bond to the tune of $1 billion the hottest investment in the cryptosphere at present. At the moment, there are many 'Bitcoiners' having both the resources and the willingness to invest.”

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Film producer and director, crypto art gallerist, entrepreneur, book author

13 Dec 2021 6 2

Lotem Finkelstein

Inserted 3 years ago

“Iranian hackers had identified a failure in Israeli understanding about cyber conflict. They realized that they do not need to attack a government agency, which is much more protected, but could easily attack small, private companies, with less sophisticated security, that control enormous amounts of information, including financial or intimate personal information about many citizens.”

Head of intelligence at the cybersecurity company Check Point

27 Nov 2021 3 5

Maysam Behravesh

Inserted 3 years ago

“We are in a dangerous phase. There will be a next round of widespread cyberattack on our infrastructure. We are a step closer to military confrontation.”

Former chief analyst for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry

22 Nov 2021 3 4

Roger McNamee

Inserted 3 years ago

“Extracting the essence of our humanity in data form and then using it to manipulate our behaviour is as unethical as child labour and it should be banned the same way that child labour was banned.”

Former adviser to Mark Zuckerberg and an early investor in Facebook

03 Nov 2021 3 3

Ravi Menon

Inserted 3 years ago

“We think the best approach is not to clamp down or ban these things. With crypto-based activities, it is basically an investment in a prospective future, the shape of which is not clear at this point. But not to get into this game, I think risks Singapore being left behind. Getting early into that game means we can have a head start, and better understand its potential benefits as well as its risks. If and when a crypto economy takes off in a way, we want to be one of the leading players. It could help create jobs, create value-add, and I think more than the financial sector, the other sectors of the economy will potentially gain.”

Managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)

02 Nov 2021 3 4

Stuart Russell

Inserted 3 years ago

“The AI community has not yet adjusted to the fact that we are now starting to have a really big impact in the real world. That simply wasn't the case for most of the history of the field - we were just in the lab, developing things, trying to get stuff to work, mostly failing to get stuff to work. So the question of real-world impact was just not germane at all. And we have to grow up very quickly to catch up.”

Founder of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley

29 Oct 2021 3 2

David Warshavski

Inserted 3 years ago

“We need to reduce the blast radius. We need to manage the battlefield. Cyberattacks on chip manufacturers are on the rise. There's a lot that can be done ... to not only prevent attacks but to mitigate them as they happen. Companies can limit the blast radius by setting up choke points throughout the network that isolate the spread of the attack and protect the core assets. For example, take semiconductors, we don't mind as much if someone reads someone's emails. What we want is to stop them gaining access to the assets that produce the wafers. This is done by anticipating the hacker's next move. We want to identify them, hunt them, and eradicate them without impacting operations. We can actually lure the threat actor to waste time in a different network segment where we can do no harm while we shore up defenses around the core assets.”

Vice President of Enterprise Security at Sygnia, a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm

28 Oct 2021 4 3

Mark Zuckerberg

Inserted 3 years ago

“Over time, I hope that we are seen as a metaverse company and I want to anchor our work and our identity on what we're building towards. We're now looking at and reporting on our business as two different segments, one for our family of apps, and one for our work on future platforms. And as part of this, it is time for us to adopt a new company brand to encompass everything that we do, to reflect who we are and what we hope to build.”

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CEO of Facebook

28 Oct 2021 4 2

Mark Zuckerberg

Inserted 3 years ago

“I've been thinking a lot about our identity. Over time, I hope we're seen as a metaverse company.”

CEO of Facebook

28 Oct 2021 2 2

Mark Zuckerberg

Inserted 3 years ago

“Good faith criticism helps us get better, but my view is that we are seeing a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company [Facebook]. The reality is that we have an open culture that encourages discussion and research on our work so we can make progress on many complex issues that are not specific to just us.”

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CEO of Facebook

25 Oct 2021 1 1

Microsoft

Inserted 3 years ago

“This recent activity is another indicator that Russia is trying to gain long-term, systematic access to a variety of points in the technology supply chain and establish a mechanism for surveilling - now or in the future - targets of interest to the Russian government. Fortunately, we have discovered this campaign during its early stages, and we are sharing these developments to help cloud service resellers, technology providers, and their customers take timely steps to help ensure Nobelium is not more successful.”

Report by Microsoft

24 Oct 2021 5 3

Victoria Petrock

Inserted 3 years ago

“It's the next evolution of connectivity where all of those things start to come together in a seamless, doppelganger universe, so you're living your virtual life the same way you're living your physical life. Tech companies still have to figure out how to connect their online platforms to each other. Making it work will require competing technology platforms to agree on a set of standards, so there aren't people in the Facebook metaverse and other people in the Microsoft metaverse.”

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Analyst who follows emerging technologies

24 Oct 2021 7 3

Jonathan Hillman

Inserted 3 years ago

“We have only seen the first phase of the U.S.-China technology competition and it has been mostly focused in developed countries. But the real competition is set to play out across the developing world. It's invisible, but everywhere. Even the traditional infrastructure projects all have a digital component to them.”

Analyst and director of the Reconnecting Asia Project at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies

21 Oct 2021 3 2

Lee Sang-ryul

Inserted 3 years ago

“Rockets are the only means available to mankind to go out into space. Having such technology means we have fulfilled basic requirements to join this space exploration competition.”

Director of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute

21 Oct 2021 3 4

Jon Grevatt

Inserted 3 years ago

“One of the biggest initial advantages potentially with this launch system is that it will provide South Korea the ability to put satellites into space that provide capability to have a system of surveillance over North Korea - and this will give south Korea the ability to monitor potential North Korea launches of ballistic and cruise missiles. In the next few years, South Korea plans to develop and start operating a series of space launch vehicles from the NARO Space Centre, and these launch vehicles will be putting small vehicles into lower orbit, further increasing South Korea's space defence capabilities. That's the plan and this is the first stage.”

Defence industry analyst with Janes

21 Oct 2021 8 5

Moon Jae-in

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Nuri didn't perfectly attain its goal, but it has done a very good job in its first launch. If we check things and make up for what we lacked today, we will surely achieve a perfect success in our second launch in May next year. Satellites are increasingly used not only for broadcasting, communication and GPS, but also for environmental and disaster responses. We already manufacture and operate practical satellites on our own, but we have had to use launch vehicles from other countries. Now we can put our satellites into space with our own launch vehicles. Now, a new era of space exploration has opened. Over the past decade, the global space industry has more than doubled, and space development itself has become an industry. It is already a reality that ordinary people are sightseeing in space. A country that leads in space development will lead the future. The government will invest in the long-term so that Korea can become a space powerhouse.”

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President of South Korea

21 Oct 2021 4 4

David Wright

Inserted 3 years ago

“Any country that can put something into space could do this. And we certainly should not be surprised that China could do this given the sophistication of its space program.”

Physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has long studied space developments

19 Oct 2021 1 3

Angus King

Inserted 3 years ago

“The new weapon [hypersonic missile] is a strategic game-changers with the dangerous potential to fundamentally undermine strategic stability as we know it. The implications of these weapons under development by China or Russia could be catastrophic.”

United States Senator from Maine

18 Oct 2021 4 3

Ahn Ki-hyun

Inserted 3 years ago

“Washington's request for Samsung to share classified information [semiconductor management-related data] is totally unprecedented.”

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Senior executive at the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA)

17 Oct 2021 4 2

Chen Bin

Inserted 3 years ago

“The shortage of chips may reduce car production by about 2 million units throughout the year in China. Some products such as industrial sensors, basic industrial software, special raw materials, and precision instrumentation which rely heavily on imports will also be hurt further with "natural calamities and man-made misfortune. From May to September this year, China's automobile production and sales fell for five consecutive months. Based on this speculation, the shortage of chips may reduce production by about 2 million units throughout the year. A single chip can affect the production and sales of millions of cars a year, and such fragility is a concentrated reflection of the ecological fragility of China's manufacturing supply chain.”

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Executive Vice President from China Machinery Industry Federation

15 Oct 2021 3 3

Nicolas Chaillan

Inserted 3 years ago

“We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it's already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion. Whether it takes a war or not is kind of anecdotal.”

Pentagon's first chief software officer

10 Oct 2021 4 6

Maria Ressa

Inserted 3 years ago

“[Facebook algorithms] prioritise the spread of lies laced with anger and hate over facts. Facebook has become the world's largest distributor of news, yet it is biased against facts, it is biased against journalism … If you have no facts, you can't have truths, you can't have trust. If you don't have any of these, you don't have a democracy.”

09 Oct 2021 5 4

Agustín Carstens

Inserted 3 years ago

“Big techs' large networks could lead to a rapid and large-scale adoption of stablecoins. Data from payment transactions would enhance their ability to exploit the DNA loop [data-network-activities]. This could further concentrate market power in the hands of a few, and threaten financial stability, fair competition and data governance.”

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General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements

06 Oct 2021 8 2

Jathan Sadowski

Inserted 3 years ago

“When Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp temporarily went offline this week due to a technical problem, we saw just how dependent we have already become on these services for so many everyday activities. It was a shock to suddenly be without them. The company would probably see this as evidence that our lives are too intertwined with its services for them to ever go away. But, as the company has proven time and time again, our interests and its interests are rarely aligned. We should instead recognise that allowing a rapacious company to design and own critical infrastructure with zero accountability is the worst of all possible options.”

Research fellow in the emerging technologies research lab at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

06 Oct 2021 6 4

Frances Haugen

Inserted 3 years ago

“I'm here today because I believe Facebook's products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy. Congressional action is needed. They won't solve this crisis without your help. As long as Facebook is operating in the shadows, hiding its research from public scrutiny, it is unaccountable. Until the incentives change, Facebook will not change. Left alone, Facebook will continue to make choices that go against the common good. Facebook hides behind walls that keep researchers and regulators from understanding the true dynamics of their system.”

Former Product Manager at Facebook

05 Oct 2021 2 2

Alex Berryhill

Inserted 3 years ago

“Because we have a field team, we were able to mitigate some of the more serious risks today's outage presented. But that might not have been the case for hundreds of other hotlines around the world. Today was a big reminder: Technologies are tools, not solutions. WhatsApp is a very important tool for our service. Usually we have phone operators receiving messages from women all day via WhatsApp, but that was not possible, and women could not contact us.”

Director of digital operations for the group Cosas de Mujeres

05 Oct 2021 5 2

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Inserted 3 years ago

“It's almost as if Facebook's monopolistic mission to either own, copy, or destroy any competing platform has incredibly destructive effects on free society and democracy. Remember: WhatsApp wasn't created by Facebook. It was an independent success. FB got scared & bought it.”

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U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district and member of the Democratic Party

04 Oct 2021 6 2

Maria Zakharova

Inserted 3 years ago

“[The outage of Facebook services] Answer the question about whether we need our own social media and internet platforms.”

Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman

04 Oct 2021 3 3

Ian Sherr

Inserted 3 years ago

“My bet is that someone pushed a button wrong, or a cord got unplugged, which seems very minor but the reality is that we've seen these things before where suddenly something is configured incorrectly and entire swaths of the internet are not available.”

Editor-at-large at CNET

04 Oct 2021 4 1

Richard Blumenthal

Inserted 3 years ago

“Frances [Frances Haugen] has shown the world that the company [Facebook] is using Big Tobacco's playbook, cruelly & cravenly seeking to make more money from addictive harms to our children, while suppressing disclosure of what it knew.”

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United States Senator from Connecticut - Member of the Democratic Party

03 Oct 2021 3 3

Frances Haugen

Inserted 3 years ago

“There were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook. And Facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests like making more money.”

Former Product Manager at Facebook

03 Oct 2021 1 3

Mark Liu

Inserted 3 years ago

“There are people definitely accumulating chips who-knows-where in the supply chain.”

Chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co world’s largest contract chipmaker

01 Oct 2021 2 2

Wang Mei-hua

Inserted 3 years ago

“The bottleneck in fact is in Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia, because for a while the factories were all shut down. The problem was especially acute with auto chip packaging, with companies in Malaysia providing services not offered by Taiwanese firms. Now the focus is on Malaysia resuming production as soon as possible. I know that Malaysia started to restore production capacity in early September, and now the production capacity has returned to about 80%, so if their capacity can slowly come back, this problem can be slowly dealt with.”

Taiwan Minister of Economic Affairs

30 Sep 2021 4 3

Josep Borrell

Inserted 3 years ago

“Some member states observed malicious cyberactivities, collectively designated as Ghostwriter, and associated these with the Russian state. Such activities are unacceptable as they seek to threaten our integrity and security, democratic values and principles, and the core functioning of our democracies. The Ghostwriter cybercampaign has targeted numerous members of parliaments, government officials, politicians, and members of the press and civil society in the EU, with the hackers accessing computer systems and personal accounts and stealing data.”

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

24 Sep 2021 7 4

Ciaran Martin

Inserted 3 years ago

“What you saw here was real recklessness. The Hafnium attack on Exchange [Microsoft Exchange] was in complete contrast to the Russian exploitation of SolarWinds software for espionage purposes. In that case there was no collateral damage - but as for Hafnium when they realised they had been caught, the hackers booby-trapped the software on the way out.”

Professor of Practice and former CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre

24 Sep 2021 5 5

Nick Clegg

Inserted 3 years ago

“The paper [Wall Street Journal] had not presented the whole picture on the most difficult issues we grapple with as a company - from content moderation and vaccine misinformation, to algorithmic distribution and the well-being of teens. The reporting was based on selective quotes from internal reports designed to hold up a mirror to ourselves and ask the difficult questions about how people interact at scale with social media. These are serious and complex issues and it is absolutely legitimate for us to be held to account for how we deal with them. [But] at the heart of this series is an allegation that is just plain false: that Facebook conducts research and then systematically and willfully ignores it if the findings are inconvenient for the company. Facebook understands the significant responsibility that comes with operating a global platform. We take it seriously, and we don't shy away from scrutiny and criticism. I wish there were easy answers to these issues, and that choices we might make wouldn't come with difficult trade-offs … [but] that is not the world we live in.”

Facebook’s vice-president of global affairs

18 Sep 2021 4 3

Data Protection Commission Ireland

Inserted 3 years ago

“While it is accepted that many devices including smart phones can record third party individuals, it is generally the case that the camera or the phone is visible as the device by which recording is happening, thereby putting those captured in the recordings on notice. With the glasses, there is a very small indicator light that comes on when recording is occurring. It has not been demonstrated to the DPC and Garante [Italian Data Protection Regulator] that comprehensive testing in the field was done by Facebook or Ray-Ban to ensure the indicator LED light is an effective means of giving notice.”

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Statement by the Data Protection Commission Ireland

17 Sep 2021 7 3

Matt Idema

Inserted 3 years ago

“There's definitely a route on ads, which is Facebook's core business model, that over the long term I think in some form or another will be part of the business model for WhatsApp.”

Facebook's vice president of business messaging

15 Sep 2021 3 3

Karina Newton

Inserted 3 years ago

“Issues like negative social comparison and anxiety exist in the world, so they're going to exist on social media too. That doesn't change the fact that we take these findings seriously, and we set up a specific effort to respond to this research and change Instagram for the better.”

Instagram’s head of public policy

14 Sep 2021 4 3

Emma Thomas

Inserted 3 years ago

“Being surrounded by constant images of the 'perfect' life and seemingly perfect bodies can also have a big impact on how you feel about your own life and appearance, and it can be really hard not to compare yourself to others.”

YoungMinds' chief executive

14 Sep 2021 2 2

Daniel Ahmad

Inserted 3 years ago

“It meant that a lot of game developers in China shifted their priorities to themselves, either developing games just for the domestic market, or to try to reach the global market industry, with localised titles or specialised titles that launch around the world first, and then come back into the mainland. Gaming is part of the culture, and China is the largest games market in the world. This isn't something that is suddenly disappearing overnight for minors, even though the limits are extremely harsh. It's still part of the culture. Parents of minors today have grown up with gaming, so they'll be more liberal minded and may be more open to letting their children use their accounts to play games.”

Analyst at Niko Partners in London

10 Sep 2021 3 4

Hong Nam-ki

Inserted 3 years ago

“The government will provide support to strengthen fiscal, tax, financial and institutional support for the crucial industries [future vehicles, bio healthcare and semiconductors] to achieve rapid growth and solidify their standing on the global stage. The growth of the three industries will not only contribute to overcoming the pandemic-triggered health and economic crisis, but also lay the foundation for the country's sustainable growth in the years to come.”

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Minister of Economy and Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea

30 Aug 2021 3 2

Joe Biden

Inserted 3 years ago

“The reality is, most of our critical infrastructure is owned and operated by the private sector, and the federal government can't meet this challenge alone. I've invited you all [business and government leaders] here today because you have the power and the capacity and responsibility, I believe, to raise the bar on cybersecurity. And so, ultimately, we've got a lot of work to do.”

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President of the United States

25 Aug 2021 1 2

Jiann-chyuan Wang

Inserted 3 years ago

“Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing equipment should be strengthened, the government should also help semiconductor manufacturers by nurturing their upstream and downstream supplies to build resilience for local industry, as Taiwan still relies heavily on Japan to import various chemicals and materials.”

Vice president of the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research

31 Jul 2021 2 2

Christophe Deloire

Inserted 3 years ago

“Enabling governments to install spyware that is used in practice to monitor hundreds of journalists and their sources throughout the world poses a major democratic problem. We call on Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to impose an immediate moratorium on surveillance technology exports until a protective regulatory framework has been established.”

Reporters Without Borders secretary-general

21 Jul 2021 3 1

Joe Biden

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Chinese government, not unlike the Russian government, is not doing this [cyber hacking] themselves, but are protecting those who are doing it and maybe even accommodating them being able to do it.”

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President of the United States

19 Jul 2021 4 3

Elon Musk

Inserted 3 years ago

“I have to or, frankly, Tesla is going to die.”

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CEO of Tesla

12 Jul 2021 1 3

Elon Musk

Inserted 3 years ago

“I rather hate it [being CEO of Tesla] and I would much prefer to spend my time on design and engineering.”

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CEO of Tesla

12 Jul 2021 1 2

George Whitesides

Inserted 3 years ago

“Today was the result of years of work and the enormous sacrifice by many. Increased spaceflight will change humanity's future for the better, and this flight helps make that happen.”

Chairman of the Virgin Galactic Space Advisory Board

11 Jul 2021 2 2

Richard Branson

Inserted 3 years ago

“I have wanted to do this since I was a child. But honestly, nothing could prepare you for the view of Earth from space.”

English business magnate, adventurer, investor, author and founder of the Virgin Group

11 Jul 2021 0 1

Richard Branson

Inserted 3 years ago

“I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now I'm an adult in a spaceship looking down to our beautiful Earth.”