Virgin Galactic launched its first spaceship with paying customers from New Mexico. Here's everything you need to know about the Aug. 10 launch.
Unlike previous flights, three of the passengers are not trained astronauts or Virgin Galactic employees — they are regular civilians who paid their way into space or won a contest for their tickets to the stars.Jamila Gilbert, a New Mexico native and Virgin Galactic employee who was aboard another Virgin suborbital space flight in May 2023.
Known as Astronaut 011, Jon Goodwin is a British Olympian canoeist and adventurer. After Thursday's launch, he will be the first Olympian in space. At 80 years old, he will be one of the oldest people to have made it to space. The two other civilians on VSS Unity will be Keisha Schahaff, Astronaut 012, and her daughter, Anastatia Mayers, Astronaut 013. The duo will be the first mother and daughter to visit space, as well as the first from the Caribbean islands.
The mother-daughter duo won their tickets to space in a lottery that Schahaff entered while aboard a Virgin Atlantic flight between Antigua and London in 2021., Virgin Galactic's chief astronaut instructor who has already been to space three times with Virgin Galactic. She was responsible for training the three civilians and will ensure that everything goes smoothly aboard the VSS Unity.
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