G 24 Hours Digital Bureau:This time, a British Olympian from the 80s, a student and his mother are going into space. They are waiting to take off in a rocket plane from New Mexico. Anastasia Myers and her mother Keisha Shahaf won tickets on a ‘Virgin Galactic flight’ by participating in a competition. The other passenger was John Goodwin from Newcastle-under-Lyme.
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Although this is the second person diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (a type of neurological disease). This mission will be seen as another test of how effective space tourism is. This space journey will be 70 minutes long. It will rise 85 km above the surface. The launch window for the Virgin Galactic 02 flight opens at 08.30 local time (15:30 BST). This is Virgin Galactic’s second commercial flight. It will rise 85 km above the surface.
The Unity rocket plane is carried in the first stage of its journey suspended below a carrier jet, known as Eve. Unity will aim to fire its engines and climb to an altitude of 279,000 feet (85 kilometers). Competing as a canoeist in the 1972 Olympics Mr. Goodwin paid US$250,000 for his ticket in 2005. But he feared that he would not be able to participate due to his illness.
He said he wanted to prove that his condition—Parkinson’s is a condition in which certain parts of the brain become progressively damaged—can’t stop him. Around 100 people will watch him travel into space at a party in Stoke-on-Trent organized by Parkinson’s UK.
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