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Virgin Galactic finally takes its first paying customers to space

Italian Air Force officers unfurled their nation's flag and peered out windows at the Earth's curvature while enjoying a few minutes of weightlessness at 52 miles (85 kilometers) above sea level. "Welcome to space, astronauts," Virgin Galactic's Sirisha Bandla said in a livestream.

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Inside the spaceplane's cabin were Colonel Walter Villadei and Lieutenant Colonel Angelo Landolfi of the Italian Air Force, Pantaleone Carlucci of the National Research Council of Italy, and Colin Bennett of Virgin Galactic.