[keepper]

Or you know, you could just go to their website and confirm that in fact, they did win it[0]

There will always be naysayers, detractors, and people who will always question the value of exporation and human inventiveness.

Like in business, if it was obvious, it would have long been done. Yes, it does tak ea bit of brashness and self serving to do new things. and their practically is seldomly obvious at the beginning.

But this is EXACTLY how humanity moves forward!!! The crazy ones, the selfish ones. The ones that sometimes do it for the glory, or just because its' hard.

It's very easy to critique, but in the words or someone else... "what have you done that is so great?"

[0]https://www.xprize.org/prizes/ansari

[keepper]

oh, and the relation to virgin galactic...

" In 2004, it signed a deal with Virgin Galactic to develop the Virgin SpaceShip, a suborbital spacecraft, for space tourism. Virgin Group and Scaled Composites have subsequently formed a joint venture, The Spaceship Company, to manufacture the spacecraft."[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Aerospace_Ventures