Michael Colglazier has swapped Space Mountain for space launches as Virgin Galactic seeks lift-off
Friends, family and crew gathered on the runway at Spaceport America in Nevada last Thursday to watch Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity glide up through the clear skies 55-miles to the edge of space.
The flight carried the youngest woman to have gone to space, 18-year-old Aberdeen University student Anastatia Mayers. Joe Goodwin, the 80-year-old former British Olympian who paid for his spot in 2005, was also on board.
It marked the first Virgin Galactic flight to carry tourists, rather than scientists or company crew, into space.
Among those watching from the ground was Michael Colglazier, the 56-year-old former Disney executive hired by Sir Richard Branson to turn space into the theme park for the wealthy.