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Virgin Galactic Flies Its First Privately Funded Space Tourists


first privately funded adventurers — and its first space sweepstakes winners — past the 50-mile space boundary today. The tourists on the suborbital space trip known as Galactic 02 included Keisha Schahaff, who won two tickets in an online contest organized by the Omaze charity sweepstakes platform and a nonprofit group called Space for Humanity in 2021.

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