Virgin Galactic's first space mission launched around half an hour ago. Sky's marthakelner has the latest on commercial space flight, which has been funded by the Italian government 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Virgin Galactic launch first commercial spaceflightGalactic 01 carried a crew of six on its roughly 90-minute flight to the edge of space.
The crew included three members from Italy - two Italian air force colonels and an aerospace engineer from the National Research Council of Italy - as well as their Virgin Galactic instructor and the spaceplane's two pilots.
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