
All aboard! Virgin Galactic flies its first tourists to the edge of space
LA TimesSpace tourists, from left, Anastatia Mayers, Jon Goodwin and Keisha Schahaff prepare to board their Virgin Galactic flight at Spaceport America, near Truth or Consequences, N.M. Virgin Galactic rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists Thursday, including a former British Olympian who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean. Richard Branson’s company expects to begin offering monthly trips to customers on its winged space plane, joining Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the space tourism business. It was Virgin Galactic’s seventh trip to space since 2018, but the first with a ticket-holder. NASA is its biggest customer, relying on SpaceX to ferry its astronauts to and from the International Space Station since 2020. Business Jeff Bezos launches new era of space travel with Blue Origin ride Following Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson to the edge of space, Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos ushered in the era of lower-cost commercial spaceflight -- or so many scientists and would-be astro-tourists hope.
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