Virgin Galactic completed its first commercial flight, sending 13 scientific payloads and four humans including three officials from the Italian Air Force to the edge of space and back. The 90-minute flight went off without a hitch, and its success marks the entrance of a new era for the 19-year-old space tourism company. Virgin Galactic has major ambitions to fly paying customers, which could include private citizens, or those representing governments or other institutions, to suborbital space on at least a monthly basis.
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