A two-million-year-old early human ancestor has become the oldest traveler to space.
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Bringing these fossils into space was a way for humanity to show its appreciation for all the of the ancestors and ancient relatives that came before us, Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in South Africa who was directly involved in discovering both fossils, said in the same statement.
"These fossils represent individuals who lived and died hundreds of thousands of years ago, yet were individuals who likely gazed up at the stars in wonder, much as we do," Matthew Berger, who carried the fossils from their home in South Africa and handed them to passenger Nash in a brief ceremony prior to launch, said in the same statement."I imagine they never could have dreamed while alive of taking such an incredible journey as ambassadors of all of humankind's ancestors.
Virgin Galactic plans to continue launching roughly one tourist flight per month for the near future, with more rapid flights coming sometime in the years ahead. In 2026, Virgin Galactic plans to open flights of its new"
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