Divergent Galactic launching commercial service today.

This was a big long-awaited milestone

after a string of delays for Richard Branson's

19-year-old company.

Galactic One, that's what this mission was called.

It was a 72 minute trip with a unity space plane

launching from the air traveling to an altitude of 53 miles so just past the

US defined start of space. The crew which included three paying customers for the Italian

Air Force, conducting experiments and research during their few minutes of

weightlessness before Unity glided back and landed smoothly on the runway.

Now I spoke with astronaut Colonel Walter Villaday,

who is also slated to travel to the International Space Station

with Axiom.

Take a listen.

In this case, I was a train to look at the experiments and to follow some procedures.

So it was a kind of a kind of compressed spaceflight mission, and let me say that this kind of approach that

both the commercial spaceflight axiom and Virgin I'm bringing in this new

commercial spaceflight sector is amazing it's a great opportunity for all of us.

This really speaks to this new era of commercial space and what it's enabling not only

for so-called tourists but also for governments and researchers too. Now for Virgin Galactic, pending inspections. for

Virgin Galactic, pending inspections and reviews.

The plan now, monthly space flights.

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