-Galla S Kiran Kumar,Bureau Chief Telagana (Andhra Pradesh)
Virgin Galactic’s first commercial space flight for ordinary citizens has been successfully completed. Passengers arriving at the atmospheric boundary felt weightless for a few minutes.
Washington: From now on ordinary citizens can go on a space tour. That is in a special plane. In this direction, the First Commercial Spaceflight undertaken by Virgin Galactic in America has been successfully completed. A Virgin Galactic instructor and two pilots along with three Italians who bought a ticket as part of this trip called ‘Galactic 01’ crossed the Earth’s atmosphere and traveled to the edges of space.
First, the carrier ‘VMS Eve’ took off from Texas with the spacecraft ‘VSS Unity’. At an altitude of 44,500 feet, the special aircraft separated from the ‘VMS Eve’ and flew into space at three times the speed of sound. In this order, it reached a height of about 85 km. Passengers who have reached the frontiers of space enjoy the weightlessness for a few minutes. After that, the special plane entered the earth’s atmosphere and landed safely on the ground.
Meanwhile, there is a huge demand for Virgin Galactic space travel. The company says that more than 800 tickets have already been sold. Do you know the price of one ticket? It is more than Rs. 3.5 crores! The aim of this organization is to organize 400 yatras annually.
