Anastatia Mayers and Keisha Schahaff won a place on Virgin Galactic's first commercial flight in a prize draw.
Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers will be the first mother and daughter to travel to space together
An 18-year-old Aberdeen University student and her mother will travel to space later this week after a winning a place on Virgin Galactic's first commercial flight in a prize draw.They will also be the first people from the Caribbean to make the journey.She was on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Antigua to London when suddenly an advert popped up.
"I filled out this sweepstake and then suddenly months later I'm getting correspondences saying that you're a top 20 finalist, then a top five finalist, to becoming a winner," she says. "Suddenly, who's walking into my yard? Richard Branson. The whole team just swarmed into my house saying 'you're the winner, you're going to space'."Anastatia says it was her decision to travel from the Caribbean to study in Scotland that led to the opportunity to go space.
"Had I not randomly chosen Aberdeen University and had we not had to take a massive detour to get my visa - we wouldn't be going to space," she says.The second-year philosophy and physics student says coming to study in Scotland was one of the biggest decisions of her life but it has "led to magnificent things happening".
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