n 80-year-old former Olympian with Parkinson’s illness shall be certainly one of three passengers on board Virgin Galactic’s first area tourism flight when it blasts off on Thursday.
Jon Goodwin, from Newcastle, will be a part of Keisha Schahaff, 46, and her daughter Anastatia Mayers, 18, who’s learning physics in Aberdeen, on the VSS Unity for the 90-minute journey.
The 2 girls would be the first mom and daughter to make a visit to area after profitable a coveted place in a prize draw, whereas Mr Goodwin secured his seat 18 years in the past after shopping for a 250,000 greenback (£194,500) ticket.
After taking off at 4pm (BST) from New Mexico within the US, within the mothership VMS Eve, VSS Unity will separate and take them into sub-orbital area, the place they are going to briefly expertise weightlessness, whereas wanting again at Earth.
The journey will increase funds for House for Humanity, a non-profit group which seeks to ship atypical residents into area to offer them a “grander perspective” on the challenges going through Earth.
The three shall be joined by astronaut teacher Beth Moses.
In June Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic efficiently accomplished the corporate’s first industrial spaceflight, taking Italian astronauts into area to conduct various scientific experiments.
The corporate is looking the primary non-public astronaut mission on Thursday Galactic 02.
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