Virgin Galactic completes first commercial space tourism flight – The National
Virgin Galactic completes first commercial space tourism flight – The National
Three Italian passengers and three crew members launched to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight on Thursday.
The mother ship departed from a horizontal spaceport in New Mexico at 6.39pm, UAE time, and delivered the VSS Unity spaceplane to a high enough altitude, where it separated and climbed to the boundary of space, reaching an apogee of 85.1km at about 7.36pm.
It was a 70-minute experience that reportedly cost $450,000, and included about four minutes of weightlessness, before the plane landed back on a runway in the desert at 7.49pm.
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