Virgin Galactic, the company founded by United Kingdom entrepreneur Richard Branson in 2004, is scheduled to undertake its first commercial flight to the edge of space.
Two Italian air force officers and an aerospace engineer from the National Research Council of Italy are scheduled to join a Virgin Galactic instructor and the spaceplane’s two pilots on a suborbital ride on Thursday that will take them about 80km (50 miles) above the New Mexico desert.
