A native of Odesa made a suborbital flight with Virgin Galactic
Kyiv • UNN
Lina Borozdina, a biochemist born in Odesa in 1969, made a suborbital flight to an altitude of 88 km aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space shuttle. She had been waiting for this flight for 18 years, having purchased a ticket worth $200,000.
Lina Borozdina, a US citizen born in 1969 in Odesa, made a suborbital flight to an altitude of 88 km today. This was reported by aviation blogger Vitaliy Trubnikov, UNN reports.
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The flight took place aboard the Virgin Galactic VSS Unity space shuttle owned by Richard Branson.
This is the highest height to which a woman born in Ukraine has ever raised the Ukrainian flag. She has been waiting for this for 18 years since the day she bought a ticket for 200 thousand dollars
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Lina Borozdina is a biochemist of Ukrainian origin. She went into space as part of a mission called Galactic 06 with three colleagues.
