Antiguan Mother Daughter Team Travels To Space

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA – Over in Antigua was a pride watch party to cheer on a mother daughter team. The first from that island to travel to space.

Anastatia Mayers and her mother Keisha Schahaff won the tickets to board the Virgin Galactic flight in a competition.

Jon Goodwin, from Newcastle-Under-Lyme, became the second person with Parkinson’s disease to go to space.

The mission will be seen as another test of how viable space tourism is.

The flight takes customers past an altitude of 80 kilometers, or about 262,000 feet, which is what the U.S. recognizes as the boundary of space.

The spacecraft returned to land at Spaceport America, completing the flight.

The mission is Virgin Galactic’s seventh spaceflight to date and its third since May.

The company aims to fly spacecraft VSS Unity at a rate of once a month and is developing a fleet of spacecraft called “Delta-class,” planned to debut in 2026, to fly at a weekly rate.