The flight came nearly two years after Richard Branson beat fellow billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to space.
She's known as "America's Most Experienced Astronaut." Peggy Whitson is the first female commander of a private space mission. Amid her training, Whitson joined LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow with a message for young women who want to explore space travel.paying customers on brief trips to space
Jamila Gilbert, who grew up in southern New Mexico and leads the company's internal communications, was among those on board who were evaluating what it will be like for paying customers. "You’re just waiting for the rocket to light," said Huie, an aerospace engineer. "And I think that moment had so much anticipation, and I could have lived in that moment forever."
British billionaire Richard Branson is welcomed as he arrives at Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, July 11, 2021 hours before travel to the cosmos aboard a Virgin Galactic space vessel. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via GettVirgin Galactic has been working for more than a decade to send paying passengers on short space hops and in 2021 finally won the federal government's approval.
About 800 tickets have been sold over the past decade, with the initial batch going for $200,000 each.Virgin Galactic has reached space five times since 2018 and will be aiming for 400 flights per year from Spaceport America once it finishes building its next class of rocket-powered planes at a facility in neighboring Arizona.
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