Namira Salim will create history on Friday (today) when she will become the first Pakistani to reach the space on a Virgin Galactic plane.
“Proud to fly the national flag high in space Insha’Allah on October 6,” she said on social media ahead of her departure alongside three other space travellers.
The other two passengers are British advertising executive Trevor Beattie and Ameri¬can astronomy educator Ron Rosano. Beth Moses, Virgin Galactic’s chief astronaut ins¬tructor, will also join the trio.
It may be recalled that Virgin Galactic on Tuesday delayed the launch of space tourism mission by a day, to Friday, October 6.
“The slip will give our team an additional day to complete vehicle prep and checks,” they wrote on X, formerly twitter. “We look forward to taking to the skies (on Friday)!”
The upcoming mission, called Galactic 04, will see three paying customers sent into suborbital space and back on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity space plane.