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| Earlier this year, Sharon and Marc Hagle became the first husband and wife to take a commercial space flight together. "You're strapped in and then you hear the countdown: 'Three, two, one … lift off!' Then the deafening roar of the engines and your seat starts to rumble," Sharon told The Post. "As you slowly lift off, the whole cabin turns red from the reflection of the engines igniting. It's like slow motion for a few seconds and then pow! You start pulling the G [forces] and the Earth disappears behind you." They're two of just a few people who have gone up so far on one of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin ships. But there are many more civilian astronauts ready to blast off: As Gavin Newsham writes, "As of November 2021, there were over 700 customers signed up with Virgin Galactic and the company is expecting 1,000 people to be ready for lift-off when it begins commercial flights later this year." But it doesn't come cheap, or fast. A seat on Virgin's flights starts at around $300,000. And Craig Curran, a travel agent from Rochester, NY, has been waiting since 2011 for his turn "I'm hoping it will be next year or 2024 but it will certainly be worth the wait," he said. Read all about it below. Ahead of the US Open kicking off tomorrow, we also have a chat with Morgan Riddle, the TikTok star who's gaining lots of buzz — and camera time — as she travels the tennis world with star-player boyfriend Taylor Fritz. And don't miss our interview with Jack Sweeney, the 20-year-old college student who is drawing unwanted attention to the private-jet travels of high-fliers like Kylie Jenner and Elon Musk — whose plane was busted by Sweeney this week for a 9-minute trip. "It feels cool," Sweeney told The Page of turning down Musk's request to knock it off. "He is one of the richest people on Earth and I am annoying him." Have a great Sunday.
| | |  | | | Space Cadets | | | | These adventurers are willing to pay $300K or more, and endure a years-long waitlist, for a rocket-ship ride. READ MORE | | | | | |  | | | Net Gains | | | | Meet Morgan Riddle, the glam TikTok star shaking up the tennis world alongside her top-ranked boyfriend Taylor Fritz. READ MORE | | | | | |  | | | Border Tragedy | | | | A huge rise in deaths is overwhelming a Texas border town's morgues, as migrants are drowning while crossing the Rio Grande. READ MORE | | | | | QUOTE OF THE WEEK | | | "Yeah, it sucks. It turned out after the fact, the fact-checkers looked into it, no one was able to say it was false." | |
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