Shefket Chapadjiev, who paid $175,000 15 years ago for a ticket on Virgin Galactic’s commercial spaceship, finally got tired of waiting and asked for a refund.
Shefket Chapadjiev, 84, bought a ticket in 2007 to fly into space with Virgin Galactic. But Chapadjiev, seen with Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, finally got tired of waiting and asked for a refund. Shefket Chapadjiev watched a beaming Richard Branson and his fellow space tourists floating 53 miles above Earth last year on a spaceflight years in the making.
"This has been for 15 years, and always we’re supposed to be flying next year, next year," says Chapadjiev, a native of Bulgaria. "People from Bulgaria keep asking me, ‘What happened?’" While Chapadjiev waited, Virgin Galactic had a number of setbacks with the program. The worst: One of its spacecraft crashed during a test flight in 2014, killing one pilot and injuring another.But Branson, with five crewmates from his space-tourism company, finally rocketed into space in July 2021.
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