About Santhosh George Kulangara
Santhosh George Kulangara
Santhosh George Kulangara, (born December 25, 1971) is going to be the first space tourist from India. He has been confirmed along with 37 others by space tour operator Virgin Galactic’s first program for 2009, thereby becoming the First space tourist from India.
Santhosh George Kulangara was born in Marangattupilly village, Kottayam District in Kerala, India. . He is a post graduate and trained cinematographer He is married to Soncy and father of two children – Sarika and George. His parents are retired high school teachers. His father V.J. George Kulangara, is the founder of Labour India Publications Ltd..
He is also a businessman in the area of education, tourism and Information Technology. He is the owner and Managing Director of Labour India groups of companies, co-founder of Labour India Gurukulam Public School, International Gurukulam School in Wagamon and Bluefield International Academy, West Virginia in the US. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of Supplement Communications (P) Ltd, an evening newspaper and Labour India Software Laboratories etc. At present he is interested in the preservation of Kerala's heritage and promoting it to the foreigners. For this purpose, he has built a Heritage Resort at Vaikom named 'Kerala Palace'.
He has become the first resident Indian to buy a US$ 200,000 for a sub-orbital ride with British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceliner. space flight is being designed to last two and a half hours in space, during which the spaceship will detach from the mother ship at 50,000 ft (15,000 m), the cruising altitude of Concorde. For this purpose, he successfully completed medical test and four days of training including Zero gravity at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and three-day pre-flight preparation, bonding and training onsite at the spaceport at Mojave desert in California. A specially designed aircraft was used for the training program.
In January 2008, Virgin Galactic unveiled a model of SpaceShipTwo, for carrying tourists into space and said that construction of the actual flight should be completed in 2008 and expected to take-off in 2009.
In January 2008, Virgin Galactic unveiled a model of SpaceShipTwo, for carrying tourists into space and said that construction of the actual flight should be completed in 2008 and expected to take-off in 2009.
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