Star power helped fuel space flight dream
10 Jul 2022
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One thing this endeavour has had from the start is star power. Richard Branson and Bill Richardson are larger-than-life-figures with résumés to match.
In addition to eight years as New Mexico’s governor, Richardson has been ambassador to the United Nations, Secretary of Energy and chair of the Democratic National Convention, and he mounted a credible bid for his party’s nomination for president. He has hosted Mikhail Gorbachev for dinner in Santa Fe, negotiated with despots and dictators from Saddam Hussein in Iraq to leaders in North Korea, and won the release of hostages and American servicemen in Cuba and the Sudan. He negotiated with the Taliban.
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