Virgin Galactic successfully flew its first paying customers to the final frontier on Thursday, a long-awaited achievement that puts it back
Italian Air Force officers unfurled their nation’s flag and peered out windows at the curve of Earth while enjoying a few minutes of weightlessness at 52.9 miles above sea level.
The carrier plane gained high altitude, then around 40 minutes later released a rocket-powered plane, called VSS Unity, which soared into space at nearly Mach 3. The flight came almost two years after Virgin Galactic’s founder Richard Branson flew into space in a test flight meant to usher in a new era of lucrative space tourism.
Villadei explained that researchers wanting to work in microgravity currently only have two options: parabolic airplane flights, where passengers experience a few seconds of weightlessness, and missions to the International Space Station, which last six months. Movie stars and celebrities were among the first to snap up seats, but the company’s program suffered a disaster in 2014 when a spaceplane on a test flight broke apart midair, killing the copilot and seriously injuring the pilot.
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