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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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Galactic-02, Virgin Galactic’s first mission to carry paying civilian customers to space, successfully launched and then landed in New Mexico
The flight window opens Thursday at 11 a.m. ET and is set to lift off from Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert for a ride to the edge of space
At $450,000 a person, the company has reported selling 800 tickets to go to space.
Virgin Galactic took off at Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert along with six members of crew including an 80-year-old who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mum and daughter pair from the Caribbean
Former British Olympian Jon Goodwin has become the first paying customer to ever fly to space aboard a flight chartered by Sir Richard Branson's firm Virgin Galactic.