treatment is upon us. the first space tourists travelling on sir richard branson s virgin galactic will launch next month. among those on board will be a mother and daughter duo, plus an 80 year old who bought his ticket nearly two decades ago. bbc s ellie price reports. the spaceship attached to a mothership. as bucket list dreams go getting into space is a difficult one. when i was two years old, just looking up in the skies, i was like, how can i get there ? it turns out a raffle ticket will do it. keisha and anastasia from antigua will be the first mother and daughter to blast into orbit together. jon goodwin from newcastle under lyme, who s 80, has beaten the odds in another way. he s got parkinson s. i was pretty convinced that they were going to turn round to me and say,
for the virgin space mission 18 years ago and has been waiting ever since. ellie price reports. the spaceship attached to a mothership. as bucket list dreams go getting into space is a difficult one. when i was two years old, just looking up in the skies, i was like, how can i get there ? it turns out a raffle ticket will do it. keisha and anastatia from antigua will be the first mother and daughter to blast into orbit together. jon goodwin from newcastle under lyme, who s 80, has beaten the odds in another way. he s got parkinson s. i was pretty convinced that they were going to turn round to me and say, you re not able to go . but they have been fantastic. the fact that i can defy my parkinson s. three years ago, i climbed kilimanjaro and cycled downjust to prove that it wasn t going to get me.
momentum, the next generation s battle will be just on the pitch. katie silver, bbc news, sydney. the first space tourists travelling on sir richard branson s virgin galactic will launch next month among those on board are a mother and daughter, and 80 year old jon goodwin an 0lympian who bought a ticket for the virgin space mission 18 years ago and has been waiting ever since. ellie price reports. the spaceship attached to a mothership. as bucket list dreams go getting into space is a difficult one. when i was two years old, just looking up in the skies, i was like, how can i get there ? it turns out a raffle ticket will do it. keisha and anastatia from antigua will be the first mother and daughter to blast into orbit together. jon goodwin from newcastle under lyme, who s 80, has beaten the odds in another way. he s got parkinson s. i was pretty convinced that they were going to turn
they are basically the fire class that we have now is basically training in a trailer. so the sooner this facility can be built, we can fill those positions because we have the applicants and we can get more people on the street to respond to ems concerns. i want to point out there are 500 or 600 activist. i m a former activist myself. i appreciate the activism but we have 3,911 calls a day in atlanta. that s not the same 3,000 calling every day. that s new people and so that s proof of the desire for the service. for public safety services in atlanta and we have to do everything we can possible to address that. bill: you both know atlanta will only get bigger, right? keisha, he made two interesting points. he thinks this makes atlanta safer and it makes it healthier. what would you say to that,