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The Italian crew (Pantaleone Carlucci CNR-ISAC Walter Villadei and Angelo Landolfi, Aeronautica militare italiana) will fly aboard the first commercial spaceflight - Galactic 01 mission, taken off today from Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America in New Mexico.  The suborbital flight lasts long enough to grant the Galactic 01 crew members a few minutes of weightlessness, and a chance to perform their research experiments.

See the flight on  Virgin Galactic

Pantaleone Carlucci, membro equipaggio missione ‘Virtute I’ e responsabile degli esperimenti di bordo del CNR-ISAC
Lucia Paciucci, backup equipaggio e responsabile operazioni e training, responsabile progetti Liulin-CNR-VG e Doosy-CNR-VG
Francesco Cairo, coordinatore degli esperimenti a bordo dello spazioplano CNR-ISAC
Andrea Liscio, responsabile progetto droP Impact iN micro-Gravity (PING) CNR-IMM 
Francesca Costabile, responsabile progetto Cabin Air Quality (CAQ) CNR-ISAC 
Patrizio Massoli, responsabile progetto Italian Combustion Experiment – Suborbital Flight (ICE – SF) CNR-STEMS

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