Virgin Galactic is one of two companies, along with Blue Origin owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, that is now hoping to send tourists to space for a few minutes.
The Virgin employee, who will now train the company's future space tourists, made the vertical ascent propelled by a rocket at three times the speed of sound."I didn't expect to have any, and I did not have any."
Virgin Galactic is one of two companies, along with Blue Origin owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, that is now hoping to send tourists to space for a few minutes. Moses' run saw the ship ascend to 56 miles -- technically space, according to the US definition, but well below, for example, the International Space Station which orbits at a height of 254 miles .
Until now, only astronauts and experienced pilots had reached this extreme environment, raising questions about the physical effects of the journey on ordinary passengers, space rookies. "It's a very intense experience," explained one of Virgin's pilots, Mike"Sooch" Masucci. At first, the spaceship enters a few seconds of free fall after it is released from a carrier plane at an altitude of eight miles .
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