Keisha Schahaff and her 18-year-old daughter Anastatia Mayers, who is studying physics in Aberdeen, are set to board VSS Unity for a 90-minute trip into space on August 10 - completely free. A ticket on Virgin Galactic normally costs £350,000.
Keisha Schahaff, 46, and her 18-year-old daughter Anastatia Mayers, who is studying physics in Aberdeen, are set to board VSS Unity for a 90-minute trip into space on August 10.
Former Olympian Jon Goodwin, 80, from Newcastle, is set to join them on the adventure from New Mexico in theThey will enter sub-orbital space, where they will briefly experience weightlessness and be able to take in extraordinary views of the planet. Mrs Schahaff, from Antigua in the Caribbean, told the PA news agency it has always been a ‘dream’ of hers to enter space.She said: ‘All this started a long time ago, when I was a little child I wanted to go to space and become an astronaut but I did not have the grades for it even though I love science.‘It all happened when I was on board a Virgin flight from Antigua to London and the advert popped up with Richard Branson on it.
‘A few months later I started to get emails from Virgin Galactic saying “You are a finalist” and asking me who I would bring into space if I won this.’
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