Updates From Galactic 02 Space Flight

The passengers are 80-year-old British Olympian Jon Goodwin and mother-daughter duo Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers.

Goodwin competed in canoeing within the 1972 Munich video games. He’s set to be the primary Olympian to journey to the sting of house, and the second particular person with Parkinson’s illness.

Goodwin purchased his ticket 18 years in the past for $250,000, making him the fourth particular person to grab a industrial seat on a Virgin Galactic flight, he advised Sky News. He added that he “definitely did” fear it will by no means occur.

Schahaff is a well being and wellness coach. She received two tickets in a raffle to boost funds for the nonprofit House for Humanity. She’s bringing her 18-year-old daughter, Mayers, who’s a philosophy and physics scholar on the College of Aberdeen, Scotland.

They would be the first individuals from Antigua and Barbuda to take a spaceflight, in line with Virgin Galactic.

The trio participated in a five-day readiness program in New Mexico, designed to organize them “bodily, mentally and spiritually” for the journey, in line with the corporate. 

Beth Moses, Chief Astronaut Teacher for Virgin Galactic, is about to hitch the passengers within the cabin of the VSS Unity for the flight. The corporate’s pilots CJ Sturckow and Kelly Latimer are slated to fly the house aircraft.