If the idea of strapping yourself into a rocket and blasting into space ... to hot-air ballooning, having set world records of his own as the first to cross the Atlantic by balloon in 1987 ...

Space Perspective He's intentionally playing down his achievements in the field; Branson is a lot of things, but he never was the kind to toot his own horn. His 1987 and 1991 hot-air balloon ...