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Cheering making the final footsteps towards realising their dreams. how are you feeling? feeling great! jon goodwin and mother—and—daughter duo keisha schahaff and ana mayers make their way to the spaceship unity. then at 8.30 local time, lift—off, on schedule and in perfect conditions. this is the momentjon goodwin has been waiting for a quarter of his life. he is now on his way to space on virgin galactic�*s first private passenger flight. three, two, one. release, release, release. an...

Galaxys first flight. the first three paying passengers on board virgin galactic�*s space flight, along with the pilot, have completed their trip to the edge of space. thats it from me. youre all caught up!

To our unity pilot kelly for her first space flight. three minutes of weightlessness and views of our planet that only astronauts have ever experienced. you are so much more connected to everything than you would expect to be. like, you felt like a part of the team, a part of the ship, a part of the universe, a part of earth. it was incredible. we welcome our crew back as they come in for landing. as unity glided back down to the new mexico desert, there was jubilation and relief. im still up th...

Galactic-02, Virgin Galactic’s first mission to carry paying civilian customers to space, successfully launched and then landed in New Mexico

The flight will include two pilots, a company representative, and three inspirational private customers.

Galactic-02, Virgin Galactic’s first mission to carry paying civilian customers to space, successfully launched and then landed in New Mexico

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Statistics on this. now, what happens is that rocket ship then reaches a certain altitude, and then they experience, everyone on board that youre seeing strapped in there, experiences three to four minutes of weightlessness. that is what it is all for, and we just talked about how this is now the space race for commercial space flight, chris, so what youre going to hear from is the mother/daughter duo, this is really special, the first mother daughter duo to make it to the edge of space, and wha...

>> so a couple of really interesting things to point out here. we talk about how expensive these flights are typically, right, you imagine typically these types of experiences have been reserved for either billionaires or people who work for nasa, right, thats typically what comes to mind. commercial space flight is a very new thing. that mother/daughter duo you just heard from, they won a lottery to do this. their ticket was paid for. and what was really special was to watch, chris, the looks o...

Members of a Parkinson's support group watch Jon Goodwin blast off for the edge of space.