Who are Keisha Schahaff, Anastatia Mayers, first mother-daughter space travelers?

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Keisha Schahaff, alongside her little girl Anastasia Mayers, turned into the principal Caribbean individual to go into space
Virgin Cosmic’s rocket-controlled space plane, VSS Solidarity, took off from a New Mexico spaceport on Thursday, August 10
Keisha Schahaff is a business visionary and wellbeing and health mentor

Keisha Schahaff, alongside her girl Anastasia Mayers, turned into the principal Caribbean individual to go into space, as Virgin Cosmic’s rocket-controlled space plane, VSS Solidarity, took off from a New Mexico spaceport on Thursday, August 10.

Virgin Cosmic, the space the travel industry organization established by English tycoon Richard Branson, at last sent off its most memorable space sightseers following quite a while of commitments. The space plane joined to a monstrous twin-fuselage mothership, conveyed three clients including Keisha Schahaff and her girl Anastatia Mayers, who won their seats in a pledge drive drawing.

It likewise conveyed as previous Olympian Jon Goodwin, who contended as a canoeist in the 1972 Munich Summer Games.

The excursion was the organization’s seventh spaceflight, second business space flight. It was additionally the principal private traveler send off. The endeavor is supposed to last at least an hour and a half.

Keisha Schahaff looks over at her daughter, Anastatia Mayers, taking in the view aboard Virgin Galactic’s first tourism spaceflight.

They are the first mother and daughter to go to space together. pic.twitter.com/2lmwgbaTxf

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Who is Keisha Schahaff, and little girl Anastatia Mayers?

Keisha Schahaff is a business visionary and wellbeing and health mentor. She is an Antiguan and Barbudan born in 1976 or 1977, who won tickets for the Cosmic 02 send off, regularly sold for $450,000, through a drawing held by Virgin Cosmic in 2021.

The lottery was held as a component of a foundation occasion raising assets for the non-benefit association Space For Humankind. Schahaff got a tropical bouquet and a gift pack from the travel industry serve Charles Fernandez sometime thereafter. She was vowed the whole help of the country and the Service of The travel industry and Speculation to help her on the “extraordinary” trip.

Before the send off, all travelers went through a “full clinical assessment by a specialist supported by the Government Flying Organization (FAA), [… ] numerous clinical records checks,” and pre-flight preparing. Schahaff has expressed that she has no worries about the campaign.

“At the point when I was two years of age, simply admiring the skies, I thought, ‘How might I arrive?’ Yet, being from the Caribbean, I failed to understand how something like this would be within the realm of possibilities. The way that I am here, quick to venture out to space from Antigua, shows that space truly is turning out to be more open. I realize I will be changed by my experience, and I want to believe that I will actually want to share that energy and rouse individuals around me — in my job as a holistic mentor, a mother, and as an envoy for our wonderful planet,” Schahaff has been cited as saying.

Aside from Anastatia, she has another girl as well.

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