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☆ Virgin Galactic's first space tourism passengers only spent a few minutes floating weightless above the Earth, and their experience still mirrored other astronauts' in 3 key ways
  + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The three passengers onboard spent a few minutes floating weightless at the edge of space. These are the first commercial passengers to fly aboard Virgin Galactic's first private commercial spaceflight. Virgin Galactic's mothership Eve taking its first space tourists on a rocket ship ride to the edge of space. Jon Goodwin, one of Virgin Galactic's space tourists, recalled feeling this way as the VSS Unity began its return to Earth. Virgin Galactic Feeling like sharingKeisha Schahaff, Mayers' mother and one of Virgin Galactic's space passengers, said that flying had always been her dream.
Persons: Virgin Galactic's, Anastatia Mayers, Mayers, Yuri Gagarin, Andrés Leighton, Jon Goodwin, would've, Goodwin, Charlie Duke, Keisha Schahaff Organizations: Virgin Galactic, Service, Virgin, VSS, Washington Post, VSS Unity, Apollo, Post Locations: Wall, Silicon, Virgin
☆ Virgin Galactic's first space tourism passengers only spent a few minutes floating weightless above the Earth, and their experience still mirrored other astronauts' in three key ways
  + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The three passengers onboard spent a few minutes floating weightless at the edge of space. These are the first commercial passengers to fly aboard Virgin Galactic's first private commercial spaceflight. Virgin Galactic's mothership Eve taking its first space tourists on a rocket ship ride to the edge of space. Jon Goodwin, one of Virgin Galactic's space tourists, recalled feeling this way as the VSS Unity began its return to Earth. Virgin Galactic Feeling like sharingKeisha Schahaff, Mayers' mother and one of Virgin Galactic's space passengers, said that flying had always been her dream.
Persons: Virgin Galactic's, Anastatia Mayers, Mayers, Yuri Gagarin, Andrés Leighton, Jon Goodwin, would've, Goodwin, Charlie Duke, Keisha Schahaff Organizations: Virgin Galactic, Service, Virgin, VSS, Washington Post, VSS Unity, Apollo, Post Locations: Wall, Silicon, Virgin
☆ Don't let NASA fool you: The next astronauts on the moon will not be wearing black spacesuits
  + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
NASA and Axiom Space revealed a new spacesuit for the Artemis moon missions last week. The spacesuit is black, but astronauts have to wear white when they're on the lunar surface. Axiom Space chief engineer Jim Stein shows off the prototype spacesuit in Houston on March 15, 2023. Astronauts can't wear black on the moonThe Apollo moon suits were white for a reason. Axiom's spacesuit prototype looks cool, but we're waiting for the version that will go to the moon.
☆ The incredible true story of the time an astronaut played golf on the moon
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +13 min
The resulting creation, a Wilson Staff Dyna-Power 6-iron head, was tucked away in Shepard’s space suit for launch, with a few balls hidden in a sock. “Miles and miles and miles,” the jubilant astronaut remarked as the ball sailed out of his view, swallowed by the infinite blackness of space. What does any of that have to do with an astronaut playing golf on the moon? Saunders believed Shepard’s “miles and miles” remark to have been made tongue-in-cheek, an almost instinctive reflex of his hyper-competitive, “fighter-jock” nature. “We always talk about getting to the moon, landing on the moon, returning back to Earth – that’s how we think of the moon,” Odom said.
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