Watch the moment space tourists on board Virgin Galactic experience weightlessness 😲 Footage from inside VSS Unity showed the passengers out of their seats and peering at the Earth through the windows 🌎
Virgin Galactic has taken its first tourists to the edge of space.
The company, founded by Sir Richard Branson, took a former Olympian and mother-daughter pair about 55 miles above Earth during the flight which lasted just more than an hour. Pilots CJ Sturckow and Kelly Latimer, alongside astronaut instructor Beth Moses, also joined the tourists on the VSS Unity, which took off around 3.30pm at Spaceport America in New Mexico.First space flight for tourists lifts off
The VSS Unity separated from its carrier plane, the VMS Eve, at 4.17pm , at an altitude of roughly 44,500ft, and ignited its rocket to fire upwards for around a minute. Just two minutes later, footage from inside VSS Unity showed the passengers out of their seats, weightless and peering at the Earth outside the rocket's windows.More on Space
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