Enlarge / Anastatia Mayers, Jon Goodwin, and Keisha Schahaff are the non-public prospects on board Galactic 02. (credit score: Virgin Galactic)
SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico—On Thursday morning, Virgin Galactic plans to fly non-public residents into house for the primary time.
The corporate’s VSS Unity spacecraft is because of be launched from its service plane after 9 am native time (15:00 UTC), and it’ll then rocket above an altitude of 80 km. The automobile will carry two pilots (CJ Sturckow and Kelly Latimer), firm consultant Beth Moses, and three non-public prospects.
The non-public astronauts are an fascinating combine. They embrace the corporate’s first paying buyer, an 80-year-old named Jon Goodwin, who competed for Nice Britain within the 1972 Munich Olympics as a canoeist. He’s joined by Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers, a Caribbean mother-daughter duo whose tickets have been bought by the nonprofit House for Humanity so as to broaden entry to house.
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