Why I have paid $250,000 to go to space with Virgin Galactic
Dee Chester is one of 600 to have signed up to be a Future Astronaut with Virgin Galactic, which starts commercial flights this autumn
3 April 2021 • 6:00am
Dee Chester with the brand new VSS Imagine at Spaceport America in New Mexico
Credit: Quinn Tucker for Virgin Galactic
Last summer, I got the first glimpse of what Virgin Galactic’s commercial passenger cabin would look like during an unveiling and virtual tour of the interior of the VSS Unity, which will be used later this year to shoot the first commercial passengers into space for a 90-minute extravaganza, including four minutes of weightless cabin roaming.