The 63-year-old businessman was speaking to Nick Grimshaw during the Q&A ahead of Radio 1's Big Weekend <\/p>\n
Sir Richard Branson has admitted he has problems with his plans to blast into space - but insisted he is very close to launching his Virgin Galactic programme. <\/p>\n
The 63-year-old businessman was speaking to students in a Q&A when he tried to play down the delays. <\/p>\n
Building a space ship and a mother ship is taking us longer than we thought but we are very close to being up up and away, he insisted. <\/p>\n
He then told the audience that lots of them would be able to travel cheaply in space before they died. <\/p>\n
He added: We have brought the price down, it you go up with the Russians it costs $40million so we have brought that down to a couple of hundred thousand dollars which is still a fortune. <\/p>\n
\"But the 800 people that have signed up will be pioneers and will in time enable us to get the price down and down and down. <\/p>\n
I a hopeful that most people in this room in their lifetime should have an opportunity to become astronauts. <\/p>\n
We are going to have to build a lot more spaceships to accommodate them but I think hopefully a good percentage of you will have a chance to go into space or be able to afford it. <\/p>\n
That is our challenge and we will do our best to deliver. <\/p>\n
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