Watch Live Virgin Galactic’s first sightseeing flight into space

The launch of Virgin Galactic’s first full-fledged tourism flight into space is scheduled for Thursday (10), at noon (Brasilia time). And look how cool: the event will be broadcast live on all platforms in digital look On the site, on Youtube And on social networks FacebookAnd InstagramAnd TwitterAnd linkedin that it Tik Tok.

Dubbed Galactic 02, it’s the company’s second commercial mission—the first of which (Galactic 01) was contracted by the Italian government to conduct science experiments in microgravity, and is therefore not considered to be tourism in nature.

During these commercial flights (which from now on, Virgin Galactic guarantees will be monthly), four people (always including an employee of the company as an instructor) take a trip beyond Earth on a space plane.

With a presentation by Bruno Capuzzi, our Executive Editor, and comments by Ciência e Espaço Editor Lucas Soares, and Astronomer Marcelo Zurita, President of the Associação Paraibana de Astronomia (APA), Member of the Brazilian Astronomical Society (SAB) and Technical Director of the Brazilian Meteor Observing Network ( BRAMON), and He lives to digital look It starts at 11:55 am.

Who are Virgin Galactic’s first space tourists

The passengers on Virgin Galactic’s first commercial cruise flight will be: Keisha Schaff and Anastatia Myers, the mother and daughter who won tickets through a raffle, and John Goodwin, who bought his seat in 2005 for $250,000, at the average bid at the time, or 1.22. million Brazilian reais, at current conversion).

According to the site Business interested, was the fourth person to purchase a Virgin Galactic ticket. That same year, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and fear set in that the trip would never happen—and that day finally arrived!

At 80, the former British canoeist will become the first Olympic athlete to go to space. Flight companion Anastatia, a 19-year-old student, will be the second-youngest person in the world to accomplish the feat. She and her mother, who is a personal trainer, are from the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda.

The trio will be joined by Beth Moses, Virgin Galactic 002 astronaut, who was responsible for training the crew.

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How does Virgin Galactic take people into space?

The flight begins when the aircraft carrier VMS EVE takes off from Spaceport America (Virgin Galactic launch base located in the US state of New Mexico), brings the VSS Unity spaceplane to a certain altitude and launches the vehicle, which fires its own engines. To head about 80 km above the Earth’s surface (a point designated by some institutions as the beginning of space).

This time, VMS EVE will be piloted by Kelly Latimer, a former NASA pilot, and CJ Sturckow, a former NASA astronaut who has four space shuttle missions under his belt, including the program’s first flight. At an altitude of about 15 km, the vehicle will launch a VSS unit, which will emerge from the ground.

The spaceplane will be piloted by Mike Masucci (retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel and veteran Virgin Galactic pilot) and Nicola Pessel (retired Lieutenant Colonel Italian Air Force, on his second mission into space – the first was Galactic Flight 01).

Like all of the company’s commercial missions, this will be a suborbital flight. This means that the spacecraft will not get fast enough to reach Earth’s orbit. Thus, the craft ascends to a certain point and then returns to Earth, not orbiting the planet. However, for a few moments during the roughly 90-minute flight, passengers experience weightlessness.

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