Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire behind the aspiring Virgin Galactic spaceline, recently shared his 91-year-old mother’s motto on social media: “Just keep going,” he tweeted.
It’s advice the serial entrepreneur whose Virgin brand encompasses an airline, a bank, mobile phones, hot-air balloons and fitness centers – among other ventures – appears to be heeding at Virgin Galactic, the anchor tenant in absentia at New Mexico’s Spaceport America.