The next “extreme” and extremely rich tourists will soon get their adventure. The spaceship of the famous billionaire will send the first tourists to space this week, and tickets for the next flights have already lined up. It’s about Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which is set to send its first tourists into space on Thursday this week.
The first commercial flight of the Galactic 02 mission took place in June – and the next one is about to start. Which, according to the British press, will deliver three paying customers into space — an 80-year-old Olympian and a mother-daughter couple from the Caribbean.
From Spaceport America in New Mexico, Virgin Galactic’s three-person crew will take the “space tourists” high into the atmosphere on the Unity rocket ship, which will first be tethered to the VMS Eve base ship before detaching and flying above Earth’s atmosphere. to give passengers a few minutes in weightlessness.
At the same time, there are a lot of people who want to experience the extreme: real queues are lined up. As a result, Virgin Galactic reported a 500% increase in revenue as amateur astronauts queued for tickets.