abstract:Will Whitehorn (born 1960) was, until recently, the President of Virgin Galactic, a company which plans to offer space tourism flights to the paying public.Mather, Adrian (2004-10-08).
Founded by Jeremy Leggett, the chairman of solar energy company Solarcentury, along with (rather unusually since his company will be consuming plenty of fuel to get rockets into space) Virgin Galactic Chief Executive WillWhitehorn.
WillWhitehorn, Virgin Galactic's president, said that one of the things which attracted Aabar was the fact that White Knight (an aircraft which lifts to high altitude a rocket that can then take either passengers or satellites onwards into space) could be flown from Abu Dhabi.