British billionaire Sir Richard Branson never backs down from a challenge.
The British billionaire toldNPRthat it had always been his dream to travel to space.
And I just thought, I’ve got to go to space one day."

Branson toldNPRthe aftermath of that crash was spent trying to decide if the program was viable.
“You know, at the time, you know, we had to decide.
Do we press on or don’t we?

I sat down with 800 engineers.
Because we could rectify that particular issue, we pressed on,” he said.
Branson’s success has made the possibility of commercial spacetravela reality.