Tourists in space: Virgin Galactic completes 2nd commercial flight

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Galactic Mission 02 had four passengers, including the youngest person to go into space. Virgin Galactic completes 2nd commercial flight to space; see how it was Virgin Galactic carried out this Thursday (10) its 2nd fully commercial mission with tourists. The VSS Unity aircraft took off and landed in New Mexico, in the United States, and carried three tourists and a company instructor. The company’s 1st commercial mission to space was carried out on June 29 and aimed to carry out experiments on microgravity. As with other Virgin Galactic voyages, VSS Unity took off today docked to the aircraft carrier VMS Eve. They separated around 12:20 pm (Brasília time) and then the passenger ship flew alone for about 15 minutes. The mission, which was named Galactic 02, took four people into space: Jon Goodwin, a former UK canoeist, becomes the first former Olympian to go into space; Keisha Schahaff, entrepreneur from Antigua and Barbuda, becomes the first Caribbean woman to go into space; Anastatia Mayers, an 18-year-old student from Antigua and Barbuda, became the youngest person to go into space (see photo of her below); Beth Moses, a Virgin Galactic instructor, flew for the fourth time with the company. The space flight was also the first to have a mother and daughter (Keisha and Anastatia) as passengers. They won tickets in a raffle that raised $1.7 million (about R$8 million) in donations for the non-profit organization Space For Humanity. The flight reached an altitude of 88 kilometers, surpassing the 80 kilometers that the United States defines as the “beginning of space”. Organizations such as the International Aeronautical Federation consider that space begins at an altitude of 100 kilometers. Anastatia Mayers is the youngest person to go to space Reproduction/Virgin Galactic Anastatia Mayers, one of the tourists on the second Virgin Galactic commercial mission, became the youngest person to go to space Reproduction Virgin Galactic flights Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight Galactic to Space took place in June with members of the Italian Air Force and the Italian National Research Council. The objective was to carry out experiments on microgravity, which can be felt during part of the flight – find out more about the mission. With the first commercial voyages completed, billionaire Richard Branson’s company plans to take tourists into space every month. The price for future space travel was not revealed, but in November 2021, Virgin Galactic sold tickets for US$ 450,000 (about R$ 2 million) each. The company says it has more than 800 tickets sold and plans to fly 400 a year. Virgin Galactic’s second commercial mission to space Reproduction Virgin Galactic spacecraft undock on the company’s 2nd commercial flight to space Reproduction Virgin Galactic aircraft completes the company’s 2nd commercial flight Reproduction Differences between space tourism ships from SpaceX, Blue Origin and by Virgin Galactic Arte/g1 The spaceship by Virgin Galactic Arte/g1

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