WASHINGTON – Virgin Galactic Holdings commenced a flight carrying its first private space tourists, a key step in founder Richard Branson’s quest to build a “spaceline for Earth”.
On board is 80-year-old Jon Goodwin, a British former Olympian who has Parkinson’s disease, as well as Ms Keisha Schahaff and Ms Anastatia Mayers, a mother-daughter pair from the Caribbean whoThey are joined by two pilots and a Virgin Galactic support astronaut. That first flight, Galactic 01, was strictly a research mission. It included a trio of researchers for the Italian Air Force, who tended to scientific payloads designed to take advantage of the microgravity environment of space.
The primary vehicle the company is flying at the moment is VSS Unity, a spaceplane that was unveiled back in 2016.Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity craft took off underneath the wing of a carrier plane at about 8.30am on Thursday in New Mexico. PHOTO: AFPWhile Unity will be used to perform monthly space trips, Virgin Galactic is focused on developing a new fleet of space vehicles called the Delta class.
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