BREAKING: Watch as Virgin Galactic launches first commercial flight into space
The crew includes 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.
The flight from Spaceport America in New Mexico is embarking on a research mission and will carry out 13 scientific research experiments., which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enablecookies or to allow those cookies just once.
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