The first space tourists to fly on Virgin Galactic’s spaceplane include a former Olympic canoeist and a mother-daughter pair from Antigua and Barbuda
Two of the passengers, mother-daughter pair Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers from Antigua and Barbuda, won their seats in a charity raffle. The third will be Jon Goodwin, a former Olympic canoeist from the UK, who bought his ticket for about $250,000 in 2005 shortly after Virgin Galactic was founded.
As the company’s first launch to space was delayed –Sign up to our Launchpad newsletterThe other crew members on the flight, which has been named Galactic-02, are astronaut trainer Beth Moses and two pilots, all Virgin Galactic employees.
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