“But it was just a tiny little spot and you most likely won’t even notice that we’re there, but it was a fun little thing.
“It was fantastic for me as a dad to look to my left and there’s my 19-year-old son piloting a spaceship, and also to know that in a couple of years’ time we actually will be going into space together.
“He chose to use a Virgin Galactic spaceship in the Superman film and he asked us, myself and Sam, if we’d like to pilot the ship so we went to Sydney and we were in a simulator spaceship going into space. that the new space travel was going to be Virgin Galactic,” Billionaire Richard Branson celebrated the inaugural Virgin American flight from Fransisco to Las Vegas by jumping off the top of the Palms Hotel and Casino. And as part of that he thought, rather than using a Nasa spaceship. In the new Superman? film, Branson and his son, 19 year old Sam are seen piloting a space shuttle after being invited by producers to take part.īranson said: “The producer of Superman has bought a Virgin Galactic ticket to go to space and is completely captivated by Virgin Galactic and the whole idea of space travel. 2 3 4 Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. 1 In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Sir Richard Branson will not only be appearing in new Bond film ?Casino Royale?, he and his son also have cameo roles in ?Superman Returns?. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British business magnate and commercial astronaut. Sir Richard Branson Features In ‘Superman Returns’
