Had to be done

Richard Branson ‘has a lot of making up to do’

But he does give the media lots to gush.. er.. write about. Which is really all that matters.

How are all those nifty ideas going, actually?

There's also the small matter of that mighty column of something probably less than climatically benign that pops out of Virgin Galactic, to enable a few mega-rich punters have their Kodak moment before availing themselves of the wee bag in the seat back.

But then if we don't have stuff like this we can't explore new worlds, and boldy go and propagate and pollute where no ma... er.. person has before.

Beam me up, Scotty! (I believe his ashes are on the tour).