Virgin Galactic Pushes for Scottish Spaceport
Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo with Burt Rutan and Richard Branson
Virgin’s Scottish space dream
The Times
Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic, has held talks with Lord Drayson, the science minister, in the past few weeks about establishing an operation at the Lossiemouth RAF airbase in Scotland.
Virgin wants the government to amend the 1986 Outer Space Act to allow it to launch space flights here. The legislation makes it difficult to run such a service in Britain.
The plan has the support of Andy Green, chief executive of the software giant Logica, who is chairing the Space Innovation and Growth Team, which is due to report to Drayson in January on ways to boost the sector in Britain.
Virgin estimates that bringing Virgin Galactic to Britain could create up to 2,000 jobs. Green believes it would also spur greater interest in the fast-growing space industry, which supports 68,000 jobs in this country.
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