Ken "Rocket Man" Baxter (born May 15, 1949) is a real estate investor. He is known for planning to become the first ticket passenger of Virgin Galactic.
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Baxter was born in Cortland, New York on May 15, 1949. The son of Hoyt H. Baxter and Maria "Zuza" (Alzbeta) Kramerova Baxter, he and his family moved to Orem, Utah in 1954. He graduated from Orem High School in 1967. Baxter is the eldest of five siblings. She has two sisters, Radana (Clark) and Julie (Dansie), along with two brothers, Mike and David.
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Careers
In a career spanning more than four decades, Baxter has closed more than 56,000 real estate transactions. He started his career in Idaho Falls, ID at the age of twenty-one in 1970, owning and operating a boutique-style operation that sold cars and home stereos. In 1973, Baxter translated his sales skills into the Real Estate business by hiring, motivating and training staff of nearly 100 new home specialists at Heartland Realty in Salt Lake City. In the 1980s, Baxter liquidated all of REO's high inventories in Salt Lake City. Relocating to Las Vegas in 1990, Baxter continued his real estate career by opening his first real estate brokerage firm in Nevada. Today Baxter runs the tradition of "Rebuilding Las Vegas, One Family at a Time" through its real estate office in Las Vegas, PMA Realty, and its real estate investment and housing development firm Apollo Realty Investments. Baxter has also penetrated into the new home market through his new home construction company, Liberty Homes. Baxter has provided a single story, semi-custom home in Northwest Las Vegas since 2012.
Space tourism
Baxter publicly praised his appeal with the space program for reading Jules Verne's "From Earth to the Moon" as a boy. Baxter holds the distinction of First Founder of Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company announced by Sir Richard Branson on September 25, 2004. Baxter bought the first commercial space shuttle for $ 200,000 USD after viewing the 60 Minutes segment featuring Burt Rutan, the winner of the $ 10,000,000 X Prize for the first non-governmental organization to launch a manned spacecraft that can be re-used into space twice in two weeks, and afterwards, giving it the nickname "Rocket Man". Rutan also SpaceShipTwo designer Sir Richard Branson, attached to the aircraft carrier, will be taken to about 16 kilometers or 52,000 feet by aircraft carrier, White Knight Two. At that point, when the carrier reaches its maximum height, the SpaceShipTwo vehicle will be apart and continue for more than 100 km (KÃÆ'¡rmÃÆ'¡n line, common definition where "space" begins). Despite the first SpaceShipTwo iteration fall during flight test on October 31, 2014, Baxter remains optimistic about its upcoming flights and continues to maintain its position on the top passenger list to become the world's first commercial tourist space.
Philanthropy
Baxter has donated his time and resources to some charity efforts. Through its public charity Green Global, Baxter acts as an advocate in the fight against Global Warming and Climate Change, and focuses its efforts to save the Amazon Rainforest from the adverse effects of deforestation in the region. Another of Baxter's public charity, Made In America, prides itself on being the driving force behind the New Industrial Revolution in America and is dedicated to supporting and strengthening American job return and retention in the manufacturing sector in an effort to reignite the economic recovery. from the United States. Made In America also donated technological equipment to schools in need in and around the Las Vegas Valley. The parent organization, Ken Family Foundation and Linda Baxter, was founded in 2005 and provides philanthropic grants for education, research and the environment.
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