'I just wanted to express some humanity on this flight, and let them know that we were mindful of what's occurring around us.'
"We're all just people," he said."We're governed by different leadership structures and different governments and different borders, but we're all just human. And so I just wanted to express some humanity on this flight, and let them know that we were mindful of what's occurring around us."
Kitchen was joined on Thursday's flight by four other paying customers: businessman Marty Allen; Sharon Hagle, founder of the education nonprofit SpaceKids Global; her husband Marc Hagle, the president and CEO of the property-development company Tricor International; and George Nield, the president of Commercial Space Technologies, LLC, who served as associate administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation from 2008 to 2018.
Sharon and Marc Hagle became the first married couple ever to fly together on a private spacecraft. They're not the first such duo to reach space together, however; that would be NASA astronauts Mark Lee and Jan Davis, who both flew on the
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