Virgin Galactic: First space tourism mission after decades of promises

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Keisha Schahaff and UK student Ana Mayers become the first mother-daughter duo to travel to the edge of space.

Anastatia Mayers, Jon Goodwin and Keisha Schahaff, boarded the VSS Unity for a 90-minute trip into spaceVirgin Galactic has taken a former Olympian, a University of Aberdeen student and her mother to the edge of space on its first flight for tourists.

Some of them - including Mr Goodwin - have been waiting over a decade to get their chance, and most still face a long wait.

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