History was created on Thursday as two Antiguans became the first mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean to head into outer space.
Keisha Schahaff, 46, a health coach, and her daughter, Anastatia Mayers, 18, a student at Scotland’s University of Aberdeen took off from the Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity.
They experienced weightlessness for a few minutes as they flew about 55 miles high above their earth’s surface.
Schahaff and Mayers were able to make their historic journey after winning a competition in November 2021.
They were joined on the journey by British Olympian, Jon Goodwin, who was among the first to buy a ticket in 2005, two pilots and the Virgin Galactic’s astronaut trainer.
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