Two Italian air force colonels and an aerospace engineer from the National Research Council of Italy will fly to the edge of space on Thursday, if all goes as planned. The flight, called Galactic 01, is the first commercial spaceflight for Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company. The trio will join one of Virgin Galactic's astronaut instructors and two pilots, who will take them to 50 miles (80 km) above the Earth. Launch is set for 11 a.m. ET. Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 as a space tourism company, aiming to ferry wealthy passengers to the edge of space and back. Thursday's flight comes two years after the first passengers and founder himself flew on the spacep
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