After documenting travels to over 130 countries on Earth, Santhosh George Kulangara from Kerala heads to space

After documenting travels to over 130 countries on Earth, Santhosh George Kulangara from Kerala heads to space

Dubai: It has been a long wait, of over 14 years, for traveller, media personality and entrepreneur Santhosh George Kulangara. But he feels that that the interactions and experiences during the waiting period was as good as the promise of being one of the first to be on a flight to the edge of space. Kulangara is one of the 600 people who signed up for the space tourism project by Virgin Galactic. On July 11, the founder of Virgin Group and Virgin Galactic, 71-year-old Richard Branson successfully completed the company's first ever space flight with a 5-member crew on board. After this success, the first commercial flights carrying the early ticket holders, including Kulangara, are expected to start in early 2022. Kulangara is best known for his detailed video travelogues from his trips to over 130 countries. Initially screened as episodes as part of the show Sanchaaram (translates to journey in Malayalam) on Asianet, Kulangara now has his own channel called Safari TV. It was on one of his trips, in 2006, that Kulangara signed up to be a space tourist. Talking about how he first came to know about space tourism with Virgin, Kulangara said "I was on