Virgin Galactic successfully completed its first tourist spaceflight, carrying a former Olympian, a University of Aberdeen student and her mother, BBC reports.
Former canoeist Olympian Jon Goodwin, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, became the second person with Parkinson’s disease to go to space.
Ana Mayers and Keisha Schahaff, from Antigua, won their tickets in a competition, becoming the first mother-daughter duo to travel to space together.
The flight took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico, with the passengers experiencing moments of zero gravity before returning to Earth.