Keisha Schahaff, 46, and Anastasia Mayers, 18, will become the first mother-daughter duo in space when Virgin Galactic’s second commercial space flight takes off on Aug. 10.
posted on Sunday, Schahaff shared that she and her daughter arrived in New Mexico.
Similarly to the first flight, Galactic 02 will employ a carrier plane, called WhiteKnightTwo, which will transport VSS Unity to about 50,000 feet up — when the “mother ship” will separate from VSS Unity as its onboard rocket motor propels the astronauts to suborbital space. Since the initial flight was successful, Virgin Galactic has been offering monthly flights since July, though a backlog of passengers has already reached 800, meaning some aspiring astronauts will have to wait years to teeter on the edge of space.The commercial flights come after a fatal test flight back in October 2014, when a Virgin Galactic pilot was killed and another was injured as the SpaceShipTwo space tourism craft crashed in the California desert.
Bezos, the Amazon founder who left his chief executive position to concentrate on his Blue Origin space tourism company, flew into space nine days later.
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