Virgin Galactic's second commercial spaceflight launched its first full space tourism trip. VSS Unity detached from carrier jet VMS Eve, taking the crew to suborbital space at 87 kilometers (54 miles) altitude. 🚀 engineering interestingengineering
Virgin Galactic's spaceplane, VSS Unity, detached from its carrier jet VMS Eve shortly after takeoff, and it then powered up its engine to fly the crew to suborbital space, reaching a maximum altitude of roughly 55 miles .
Unity firing its engines has become a familiar sight, though it is, in fact, the first time Virgin Galactic has flown a paying space tourist — Jon Goodwin — on its spaceplane. Keisha Schahaff and her daughter Anastatia Mayers won the tickets after entering their names into a prize draw during a Virgin Atlantic airliner flight from Antigua to Scotland, where Mayers attends Aberdeen University. Goodwin, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, is the second person with Parkinson's disease to ever fly to space.
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