Virgin Galactic has responded to reports in the Irish Independent saying that it is only accepting US citizens, describing the article as "completely inaccurate".

A Virgin official said Cyril Bennis, an Irishman living in the UK, had inquired about flying non-US citizens on its flights and was told that they were accepting deposits from Americans and others alike “because we fully intend to be able to fly these pioneering people”.

• Virgin: Irish article 'completely inaccurate' -- Newspace Journal

Rocketeer comments: VG will indeed be flying such noted non-Americans as Richard Branson himself (duh!) and Stephen Hawking. Whoever wrote the original report in the Independent had clearly failed to do a modicum of research.