Virgin Galactic is planning a space wedding and honeymoon

Sir Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Galactic, plans to break another record by marrying a couple in space

The 58-year-old billionaire Richard Branson did not rest for a moment. After being the first man to cross the Atlantic in a motorboat, the first to cross the Pacific in a hot air balloon, the man who broke the speed record for crossing the Lemanche Canal in an amphibious vehicle and set several other world records. Now he's decided it's time to conquer space as well, intending to hold a wedding on Virgin Galactic's maiden flight next year.

Sir Branson has already performed an on-air wedding, last year he was ordained in an online church to marry a director of Virgin Galactic. The wedding was held on a flight from San Francisco to Las Vegas, on a Virgin Airways plane, the civil aviation arm of the Virgin Group.

The next step is a wedding in space. A spokesperson for the Virgin Group stated that Virgin Galactic, which was established with the aim of providing tourism services in space, has already received dozens of orders to provide flight services into space, including 2 orders related to weddings - on one flight a wedding will be held in space, while the other flight is a kind of moon talk in space.

We should note that the couple who booked a honeymoon in space already paid 100,000 pounds in advance for the ticket. In this case, too, it is a person related to the company - Virgin Galactic consultant George Whitesides and his new wife Loretta Hidalgo.

Virgin Galactic space tourists

So far 200 people have paid to have a suborbital experience including Princess Beatrice, whose partner Dave Clark works in the marketing department of Virgin Galactic, and according to her statements she plans to become the first person of the royal class to reach space. Actress Victoria Principal, designer Philippe Starck and disabled professor Stephen Hawking all paid for the coveted trip to space.

In January, Branson unveiled the Spaceship 2 spacecraft, which he promises will make space tourism a reality. According to the company, each space tourist will go through training and training for 3 days, at the end of which they will board the space vehicle that will fly them from the space base to orbit around the Earth for two hours during which they will be able to see the Earth from space, experience the G-forces and enjoy the lack of gravity.