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Mum, daughter bound for space after winning Virgin Galactic prize

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson surprises space travel sweepstakes winner Keisha Schahaff at her home on Antigua on Nov 6.

WASHINGTON: A health coach from Antigua and Barbuda has won two tickets worth almost US$1 million to be among Virgin Galactic’s first space tourists — and plans to take the trip of a lifetime with her teenage daughter.

Keisha Schahaff, 44, said she wanted to cross the final frontier with her 17-year-old, a science student living in Britain who dreams of one day working for Nasa.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson surprised Schahaff with the news at her home in the Caribbean in early November.

“I just thought I was doing a zoom interview,” she told AFP.

“When I saw Richard Branson walking in I just started screaming! I couldn’t believe it.”

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