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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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The flight came almost two years after Virgin Galactic's founder Richard Branson flew to space in a test flight meant to usher in a new era of lucrative space tourism.