Virgin Galactic launches first space tourism flight - exact time, how to watch and who is on board
Virgin Galactic is getting ready for its first-ever tourism space flight - and the launch will be streamed live.
The three passengers will be joined by astronaut instructor Beth Moses. The company is calling its first private astronaut mission Galactic 02.The tourist trip comes after Sir Richard Branson successfully completed Virgin Galactic's first commercial spaceflight in June which saw Italian astronauts enter space in order to conduct a number of scientific experiments.
Virgin Galactic will host a live stream of the launch on their website virgingalactic.com. You can see it here. Since his Parkinson's diagnosis in 2014, Mr Goodwin has climbed up Mount Kilimanjaro and cycled back down. Virgin Galactic said he will be only the second person diagnosed with Parkinson’s to fly to space.
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