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Anastasia Myers while in weightlessness in Virgin Galactic's Unity spacecraft on Commercial Flight 02. In the background is her mother Kisha Shaf with an Israeli flag on her arm. Photo: Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic space flight 02 landed safely, consisting of four women and only two men

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One of the space tourists is Kisha Shaf, who is married to an Israeli and wears the Israeli flag. In addition, her 18-year-old daughter Anastasia Myers flew - the first combination of mother and daughter on a space flight. During the flight, the Unity spacecraft reached an altitude of 88 km and the passengers felt a few minutes of low gravity
Stephen Attenborough, Chief Marketing Officer, Virgin Galactic. From a digital conference of the JUNIPER company

"The great gift of space flights is the opportunity to observe the Earth from the outside and see how fragile it is"

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This is what Stephen Attenborough, Chief Customer Officer at Virgin Galactic says during a virtual conference held by the Juniper company. Enborough's talk was broadcast from Virgin Galactic's Astronaut Office in London
Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Galactic and representatives of the associations arrived at the home of the winner, Kisha Shaf. PR photo, Virgin Galactic,

A resident of Antigua married to an Israeli and their daughter will fly into space after winning the Virgin Galactic lottery

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The raffles were conducted by the fundraising platform Omaze and Sir Richard Branson raised an expected $1.7 million in grants to support the Space for Humanity project to democratize space travel
Richard Branson and the passengers who accompanied him on the first suborbital flight. PR photo, Virgin Galactic

Interstellar contamination | angle

In recent weeks, space tourism has become a reality for two of the world's richest men. Is it an expensive but harmless amusement, or another blow to the earth's battered atmosphere? We went out to check
Richard Branson, founder and CEO of Virgin Galactic hovers in the passenger compartment of the suborbital spaceship SpaceShip2 on the Unity 22 mission on July 11, 2021. PR photo, Virgin Galactic

The billionaire space race is a publicity stunt but may help promote the space economy

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This is according to an analysis by PITCHBOOK. According to the analysts, before flying humans into space, advanced uses of satellites should be exhausted and the problem of space debris should be addressed, but the budget for this may be reached thanks to these gimmicks.
Former astronaut Chris Hadfield bestows space wings on Sir Richard Branson after the successful flight to the edge of space. Screenshot from the Virgin Galactic YouTube channel.

Richard Branson beat Jeff Bezos in the space race * took off with 5 others to give way

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The spaceship or rather the Spaceship 2 rocket plane took off for the mission known as Unity 22 from the Virgin Galactic Space Center in New Mexico on a carrier plane and when they reached the desired altitude they activated the rocket engines and rose to a height of about ninety kilometers where the passengers saw the curvature of the Earth and floated in low gravity

Virgin Galactic Announces First Successful Test of Spacecraft's Rocket Engine Since 2014 Crash

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Virgin's Unity spacecraft is carried aboard its mother plane on a test flight on September 8, 2016. Source: Virgin Galactic.

Saudi Arabia and Virgin Galactic will cooperate in space flights, satellite launches and space tourism

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MARS DRAGON - a spacecraft that SPACEX plans to launch to Mars. PR photo

Engineer the future of space exploration

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Virgin Galactic has received a license from the Federal Aviation Administration to test its spacecraft

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The new model of Spaceship 2 spacecraft, "Unity". Source: Virgin Galactic.

More than a year after the crash of the spaceship 2, Virgin Galactic unveiled the new model of the spacecraft, which will take tourists to the edge of space

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The nucleus of Comet 67P Churyumov-Grasimenko as imaged by Rosetta's Navigation Camera, December 7, 2014

Summary of 2014 Part I - Man in space: the landing on the comet, the test flight of Orion and the space disasters

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Richard Branson is practicing flying Spaceship-2. From the Virgin Galactic website

"The damage to the space tourism industry will only be in the short term, it is clear to everyone that there is a risk in technological developments"

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Landing (previous) of the spacecraft Spaceship-2. From the Virgin Galactic website

Tourist spaceship Spaceship-2: no second chance for landing * Branson: the project will continue

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One of the two pieces of the Spaceship 2 spacecraft tail on the ground in the Mojave desert, minutes after the spacecraft disintegrated during a test flight. Photo: Mujabi's army and emergency response team

Updates from the crash site of the spaceship-2 tourist spacecraft

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Debris of the SpaceShip 2 spacecraft that crashed during a test flight in the Mojave Desert, October 31, 2014. From Twitter

Second space accident in a week, one dead and one injured in the crashes of Virgin's Spaceship-2 spacecraft planned to fly space tourists

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Landing test, SPACESHIPTWO, October 2010. Photo: PR, Virgin Galactic

NBC will broadcast Virgin Galactic's maiden flight live, with Richard Branson and his family in attendance

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Virgin Galactic's Spaceship 2 spacecraft during a takeoff and landing test in October 2012. PR photo

The space race is also coming to the reality show "Space Race": a new program on NBC will buy the lucky winner a plane ticket to space

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Separation of a booster as photographed during the test of Virgin Galactic's Spaceship 2 spacecraft on September 5, 2013. From a video by Virgin Galactic

This is what the Earth looks like from a camera on the tail of the private spaceship SpaceShipTwo (video)

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Visualization of the Spaceship 2 private spacecraft flight. Image: Virgin Galactic

"The private space business is on the fast track to take off," says Virgin Galactic President George Whitesides

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Stratolaunch Systems will build a mobile launch system

A plane on its way to space

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Stratolaunch Systems will build a mobile launch system

The pioneers of private spaceships will open the new generation of space shuttles

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Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Galactic and New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez at the inauguration of Spaceport America, October 2011

On the way to private flights to space: the "America" ​​spaceport in New Mexico is underway

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The Spaceship 2 Enterprise spacecraft enters the atmosphere over the Mojave Desert. Photo: Mitzpe Clay

On the way to commercial space flights: the first private spacecraft successfully entered the atmosphere

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Landing test, SPACESHIPTWO, October 2010. Photo: PR, Virgin Galactic

The first private spacecraft in history successfully made a manned test landing

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