ONE SMALL STEP BEGINS YOUR JOURNEY TO SPACE

With the beautiful spaceship, VSS Unity, safely in her new home at Spaceport America, we are inviting you to bring your own dream of spaceflight one step closer.

Spaceport America - February 25, 2020 - More seats on VS Unity will be available soon and this new US$1000 Category Moves Registrants to Front of Line for Future Spaceflight Reservations.

Virgin Galactic announced today that in preparation for the re-opening of spaceflight sales, it is introducing the One Small Step initiative. The company formally closed its doors to new ticket sales after its history-making first spaceflight in December 2018.

In addition to more than 600 firm reservations it has already taken from Future Astronaut customers from 60 countries, Virgin Galactic has received a consistently high level of interest from aspiring astronauts. This has resulted in 7957 online reservation registrations in the fourteen months since the first spaceflight and more than double the number the Company last reported in September 2019.

In light of continuing, strong progress towards commercial service, Virgin Galactic is now preparing to release its next tranche of seats for sale to the general public. In the first phase of that process, the Company will be launching its new One Small Step qualification process on Wednesday, February 26th, allowing those who are serious about flying to space, to register now and be front of line for firm seat reservations, once they become available.

To take One Small Step, future flyers will pay a fully refundable deposit of US$1,000 in a simple online registration process availability will be limited, so we are offering a two stage process:

STEP 1) Contact Us to take your first ‘Small Step’ to space today, by paying a fully refundable registration fee of US$1,000. This will move you to the front of line for new seats when they become available.

STEP 2) Once the seats become available, We will contact you with a firm Giant Leap offer, where you will have an incredible opportunity to confirm your journey to space. Small Step registrations are limited, so if you are serious about becoming an astronaut, Call us today to take that first step forward! Craig Curran, our Virgin Galactic Accredited Space Agent, will guide you through the Giant Leap spaceflight reservation process when new seats are released.

Once you are firmly booked, you will become a full member of the exclusive Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut Community, opening up a new world of connections and experiences as you prepare for your journey to the black sky.

Here’s to 2020!!

About Galactic Experiences by DePrez
Galactic Experiences by DePrez is a member of the DePrez Group Of Travel Companies, which is the largest independent travel management firm in central and western NY. Founded in 1929, the group provides extensive and diverse travel services, including cruise sales by Just Cruises, Inc. a top 50 cruise-only agency in N.A., meeting and conventions planning to fortune 100 companies and large associations, corporate travel management, and luxury travel leisure sales through Whitaker & DePrez Travel Partners LLC.

About Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic, owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS, is on track to be the world’s first commercial spaceline. The new spaceship VSS Unity) and carrier craft (WhiteKnightTwo, VMS Eve) have both been developed for Virgin Galactic by Mojave-based Scaled Composites. Founded by Burt Rutan, Scaled developed SpaceShipOne, which in 2004 claimed the $10m Ansari X Prize as the world’s first privately developed manned spacecraft. Virgin Galactic’s new vehicles share much of the same basic design, but are being built to carry six customers, or the equivalent scientific research payload, on sub-orbital space flights, allowing an out-of-the-seat, zero-gravity experience and offering astounding views of the planet from the black sky of space for tourist astronauts and a unique microgravity platform for researchers. The Virgin Galactic commercial operations, are based at Spaceport America in New Mexico.

For More Information Please Contact:

CRAIG CURRAN , ASA
Galactic Experiences By DePrez, DePrez Travel Bureau, Inc.
585-442-8900 X224