A three-man crew from Italy soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert on Thursday aboard a Virgin Galactic rocket plane, the company s first flight of paying customers to the edge of space since British billionaire Richard Branson founded the venture in 2004.
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The CEO of Virgin Galactic dismissed comparisons between their space voyage and the OceanGate disaster in an interview hyping up the company s first commercial mission .
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