Antiguan mother, daughter bound for space

Mission, seventh spaceflight and second commercial spaceflight dubbed ‘Galactic 02,’ on this flight will be a mother-daughter duo from Antigua.

Forty-six-year-old Keisha Schahaff and her 18-year-old daughter Anastasia Mayers will be the first such duo to fly to space and the first from the Caribbean on a whole.

Schahaff, a health and wellness coach, at her home in Antigua, with the news that she had won two tickets to space in November 2021.

The word is that she had entered a sweepstake a month prior for the $450,000 opportunity after seeing an ad while travelling.

Caribbean, I didn’t see how something like this would be possible.” with American Jon Goodwin, who competed as a canoeist in the 1972 Munich Games, is 80 years old and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2014.

The trip is also a dream come true for 18year-old Mayers who is currently a second-year undergraduate studying philosophy and physics at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

VIRGIN GALACTIChas officially announced that in less than a month when it embarks on its first private Astronaut

The historic flight will take place on August 10.

LOOP News reported that Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson surprised

The entrepreneur had long dreamed of journeying to outer space and said in a release:

“When I was two years old, just looking up to the skies, I thought, ‘How can I get there?’ But, being from the

She aspires to become an astrobiologist for NASA and will be one step closer to that as she is about to become the second youngest person to travel to space.

The mother-daughter team will be travelling onboard VSS Unity along

Goodwin is aiming to be the second person with the condition to travel to space.

He was one of the early ticket holders for a trip to space with Virgin Galactic.

To date, fewer than 700 people have travelled to space, with little diversity among that group. Virgin

Galactic’s mission is to change that — beginning with an 800-strong Future Astronaut community that represents more than 60 different nations.

(Source: LOOP News)