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With the company's astronaut trainer and one of the two pilots, it marked the first time women outnumbered men on a spaceflight, four to two.
Virgin Galactic has flown its first private tourists to the edge of space in a trip that included awesome views of Earth and a short period of weightlessness.
Virgin Galactic launched its first tourist passengers into the weightlessness of space Thursday, the culmination of a nearly two-decade commercial pursuit, the company said.
Virgin Galactic has rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists. One passenger bought his ticket 18 years ago. The tourist flight glided back to a runway landing Thursday in the New Mexico desert after the passengers experienced a few minutes of weightlessness. Aboard the plane-launched spacecraft was a former British Olympian with Parkinson’s disease, and a mother and daughter from the Caribbean who are contest winners. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has now taken seven trips to space since 2018, but this was the first with a ticket-holder. Ticket prices started out a...
It will be Virgin Galactic's seventh trip to space since 2018, but the first with a ticket-holder. About 800 people are currently on Virgin Galactic’s waiting list.