Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight returns safely to earth
- 9 months ago
Virgin Galactic has launched its first space tourism flight, blasting a former Olympian from Newcastle and a mother-daughter duo above the Earth.
The flight carried the three civilian passengers to the edge of space, before returning to Spaceport America in New Mexico.
The passengers experienced a brief period of weightlessness as the craft reached 85km above the earth.
The passengers - 46-year-old Keisha Schahaff, her 18-year-old daughter Anastatia Mayers and 80-year-old Olympian Jon Goodwin - are now officially astronauts.
This launch follows the company’s inaugural commercial trip earlier this summer, when three Italian citizens were taken into low orbit for scientific research experiments.
The flight carried the three civilian passengers to the edge of space, before returning to Spaceport America in New Mexico.
The passengers experienced a brief period of weightlessness as the craft reached 85km above the earth.
The passengers - 46-year-old Keisha Schahaff, her 18-year-old daughter Anastatia Mayers and 80-year-old Olympian Jon Goodwin - are now officially astronauts.
This launch follows the company’s inaugural commercial trip earlier this summer, when three Italian citizens were taken into low orbit for scientific research experiments.