The President believes and looks forward to today's meeting as a way to make progress toward moving down the road to something more formal later in the year.

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And that's something the President has worked on and something that the President will continue to seek to make progress on in the months and years to come.

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"People were frustrated by the lack of progress in space, and they decided to step up and make something happen, " says George Whitesides, chief executive of Virgin Galactic.

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