Virgin Galactic02 crew members, Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff and Anastasia Mayers. (Virgin Galactic)(NEW YORK) Virgin Galactic is launching its first mission carrying paying customers on Thursday just weeks after the company s first flight in June.
Galactic 02 will launch from Spaceport America in New Mexico at 9:00 a.m. MST (11:00 a.m. EST), which will be livestreamed.
The spaceflight company, founded by British businessman Richard Branson, will have six people on board, with three of them being regular civilians.
The mission will also make history with the first Olympian in space as well as the first Caribbean astronauts and the first mother-daughter duo in space.
Onboard is Jon Goodwin, 80, who competed in the 1972 Munich Games as a canoeist. Goodwin has Parkinson s and will be the second person with the disease to go to space.
"For me to go to space and defy Parkinson s is hopefully inspirational to all people," he said in a promotional video published two weeks ag
Virgin Galactic02 crew members, Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff and Anastasia Mayers. (Virgin Galactic)(NEW YORK) Virgin Galactic is launching its first mission carrying paying customers on Thursday just weeks after the company s first flight in June.
Galactic 02 will launch from Spaceport America in New Mexico at 9:00 a.m. MST (11:00 a.m. EST), which will be livestreamed.
The spaceflight company, founded by British businessman Richard Branson, will have six people on board, with three of them being regular civilians.
The mission will also make history with the first Olympian in space as well as the first Caribbean astronauts and the first mother-daughter duo in space.
Onboard is Jon Goodwin, 80, who competed in the 1972 Munich Games as a canoeist. Goodwin has Parkinson s and will be the second person with the disease to go to space.
"For me to go to space and defy Parkinson s is hopefully inspirational to all people," he said in a promotional video published two weeks ag
Virgin Galactic02 crew members, Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff and Anastasia Mayers. (Virgin Galactic)(NEW YORK) Virgin Galactic is launching its first mission carrying paying customers on Thursday just weeks after the company's first flight in June. .