Time magazine wrote it was “angry, even disgusted” with me personally and claimed, that “a Virgin crash always seemed troublingly likely.” They called me “a man driven by too much hubris, too much hucksterism and too little knowledge of the head-crackingly complex business of engineering.” (I’m no rocket scientist and have never pretended to be—but I have hired the world’s finest.) A month earlier, the Daily Mail proudly displayed the headline “The only thing Branson has fired into space is his ego;” now they really went for the jugular. One of the problems with this coverage was that, even as
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