Virgin Galactic winners Anastatia Mayers, 18, and her mother Keisha Schahaff shocked as entrepreneur turns up at their home with good news
A mother and daughter revealed they only discovered they had won the chance to travel to space when Richard Branson turned up at their home.
Anastatia Mayers, an 18-year-old student at the University of Aberdeen, and her mother Keisha Schahaff, 46, will become the first mother and daughter to make the journey to space – and the first people from the Caribbean – after Ms Schahaff won the places in a prize draw.
They will set off on the expedition on Thursday from New Mexico on board the VSS Unity, run by Virgin Galactic.
Ms Schahaff said she had been on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Antigua to London to sort out her daughter’s visa when she entered the competition after an advertisement popped up.