George Whitesides Quotes

United States, Chief Executive Officer
January 2, 1967

George Thomas Whitesides is CEO of Virgin Galactic, a firm developing commercial space vehicles at the Mojave Air and Space Port. He studied in Newton North High School. He was previously Chief of Staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a position to which he was named after serving on the NASA transition team for the incoming Obama administration.

Innovation at it’s heart is doing things new, differently and better. Innovation is something that we think a lot about at Virgin Galactic. Almost everything that we do is in some way new.

George Whitesides
- Heart
- Innovation
- New
Each of those companies and nations is doing something different, but there is an exciting sense that there are areas that overlap, which makes us all want to get up in the morning and go as fast as possible; there’s a little bit of a space race – but it’s a friendly competition.

George Whitesides

Every industry needs to embrace innovation. What we are trying to do in aerospace is to embrace innovation but keep it smart by not necessarily taking more substantial risks.

George Whitesides
I’ve wanted to go into space since childhood, and as I get older I’m increasingly inspired by the relationship between space and Earth. The more you learn about space, the more you understand how special Earth is as a planet and we need to be good stewards of our home spaceship because others are not easily accessible.

George Whitesides
- Earth
- Relationship
- Space
Space exploration will change in a large and fundamental way. The future is very exciting.

George Whitesides
- Future
- Space
- Exploration