The daughter
of Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson was among those injured Monday at
Virginia Tech, where a student gunman killed 32 people and himself
in the deadliest campus shooting in recent U.S. history.
Anderson's
step-daughter Kristina Heeger underwent surgery for three gunshot wounds following
the Virginia Tech shooting in Blacksburg, Virginia, and is reportedly doing
well, according to his assistant Terese Brewster.
"She is in
stable condition and the prognosis is good," Brewster told Space News in
an e-mail.
Brewster
wrote that Heeger underwent surgery Monday afternoon.
Based in
Vienna, Virginia, Anderson's Space
Adventures firm offers spaceflight experiences ranging from weightless
flights aboard modified jets to orbital trips to the International Space
Station (ISS).
The firm
arranged the current spaceflight of U.S. entrepreneur
Charles Simonyi, who is paying between $20 million and $25 million to visit
the space station, under an agreement with Russia's Federal Space Agency. He
will return
to Earth with two ISS Expedition 14 astronauts on April 21.
According
to Virginia police and the Associated Press, student Cho Seung-Hui shot
and killed 32 people, then himself, during a pair of attacks Monday separated
by more than two hours. Two people were killed in a Virginia Tech dormitory in the
first attack. 30 others were killed in a classroom building, where Cho also
died, police said.
Cho, who
came to the U.S. from South Korea in 1992, reportedly left an eight-page note
railing against religion and the rich that was found after the massacre, the Associated
Press reported Tuesday.
Adam
Geller, Associated Press national writer, contributed to this report.