Ben Saunders

The final frontier

This is cool – there's an interview with Sir Wally Herbert in October's Geographical magazine:

'I might now even argue that reaching 70 and discovering there is so much left to do is as gratifying as any of the ambitions that crowded my youth.'

I don't know if space flight is on Sir Wally's to-do list, but today Sir Richard Branson launched Virgin Galactic and took a, er, giant leap towards making commercial space flight a reality.

The £110,000 ticket might be a little out of my reach, but I'm sure they'll need someone to push the trolley down the aisle, no?

— Filed under Inspiration