Atlanta Philanthropist/Dare Devil Sets Sight on Virgin Galactic Space Tourism Flight

Atlanta Philanthropist Reaches For Stars As Citizen-Astronaut
WXIA-TV

Since his sold “Barton Protective Services” six years ago, Charles Barton Rice has spent his time and fortune on philanthropy. “My mother…my father…they were always giving” he said. “And that’s where I get it.”

His big project is to transform his hometown, Blakely, Georgia into a twenty first century tech center. That’s for the long term. For the short term he has set his sights a bit higher.

From the bullet car he rode as a child made from a B-29 fuel tank…to the Bugatti he rides today over two hundred miles an hour (on a closed track) Charles Barton Rice has been wired for adventure…

He has always been in good physical shape. But the day he committed to the Virgin Galactic space flight he hired a personal trainer.

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