 A mother who is one of three people who will be on Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight has said she is 'not nervous at all' about the trip. Keisha Schahaff, 46, and her 18-year-old daughter Anastatia Mayers, who is studying physics in Aberdeen, are set to board VSS Unity for a 90-minute trip into space on August 10. They will be the first mother and daughter ever to make a trip to space after winning a coveted place in a prize draw. Former Olympian Jon Goodwin, 80, from Newcastle, is set to join them on the adventure from New Mexico in the US. They will enter sub-orbital space, where they will briefly experience weightlessness and be able to take in extraordinary views of the planet. The trip will raise funds for Space for Humanity, a non-profit group which seeks to send ordinary citizens into space to give them a 'grander perspective' on the challenges facing Earth. Mrs Schahaff, from Antigua in the Caribbean, told the PA news agency it has always been a 'dream' of hers to enter space. Keisha Schahaff, 46, will go to space with her daughter (Picture: Virgin Galactic) She said: 'All this started a long time ago, when I was a little child I wanted to go to space and become an astronaut but I did not have the grades for it even though I love science. 'I became a young mother and life just went in another direction. 'It all happened when I was on board a Virgin flight from Antigua to London and the advert (for the lottery) popped up with Richard Branson on it. 'At that moment I was shocked and I was like 'Are you kidding me?', so I filled out this lottery and I left it alone after that. 'A few months later I started to get emails from Virgin Galactic saying 'You are a finalist' and asking me who I would bring into space if I won this.' Mrs Schahaff said she booked two seats by accident and asked her husband to join her, but he refused, thinking it){kind=link}
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A mother who is one of three people who will be on Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight has said she is ‘not nervous at all’ about the trip.
Keisha Schahaff, 46, and her 18-year-old daughter Anastatia Mayers, who is studying physics in Aberdeen, are set to board VSS Unity for a 90-minute trip into space on August 10.
They will be the first mother and daughter ever to make a trip to space after winning a coveted place in a prize draw.
Former Olympian Jon Goodwin, 80, from Newcastle, is set to join them on the adventure from New Mexico in the US.