Space Tourism Market (E)
Private company Virgin Galactic has created history by venturing into the space tourism market. As part of its space program, five people, including the company’s owner, Richard Branson, took a trip to space and returned successfully to Earth. The crew included India-born Sirisha Bandla, an aeronautical engineer at Virgin Galactic. On July 11th , the crew of Virgin Galactic’s Unity-22 test flight mission took off at 8:40 pm according to the local time, from the company’s Spaceport America facility in New Mexico and flew just above the boundary of space, where the four passengers and two pilots experienced about four minutes of weightlessness.
