Per Wimmer owns and administrates his own international corporate financial advisory firm, Wimmer Financial, which he founded on the 50th anniversary of Sputnik day, 4 October 2007. Wimmer Financial specializes in global corporate finance, shares trading, real estate and natural resources. Furthermore, Per Wimmer is a founding astronaut with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic; the first astronaut onboard space company XCOR's Lynx rocketplane and holds a trip to space reservation with Space Adventures (wikipedia sources) Pictures, bottom right with Sir Richard Branson