🚀 Virgin Galactic takes first tourists to edge of space. Passengers Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers spoke publicly for the first time officially as astronauts, having reached the edge of space. Read more:
It is just 120 years since the Wright brothers strapped themselves to a rickety powered glider and flew all of 36 metres.But Virgin Galactic has opened a new chapter in the story of aviation, taking its first tourists into space in a plane that's far sleeker, yet still familiar to anyone jetting back from their summer holiday.
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, already takes tourists to space in a traditional rocket. It's only with the dawn of charter flights that prices really came down. The space tourism industry will surely find ways of making similar efficiencies. Pilots CJ Sturckow and Kelly Latimer, alongside astronaut instructor Beth Moses, joined the tourists on the VSS Unity, which took off around 8.30am local time at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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