The mission is scheduled to take off on Thursday, a week after five passengers on board another extreme tourism venture were killed near the Titanic.
WATCH LIVE: Galactic 01 Spaceflightsuborbital spaceplane will carry a three-person crew from the Italian Air Force and National Research Council of Italy.The crew will be commanded by Walter Villadei, a colonel in the Italian Air Force who previously trained with NASA as a backup pilot for Axiom Space’s second commercial mission to the International Space Station.
The flight will last for about 90 minutes, during which the Galactic 01 crew will conduct a series of suborbital science experiments. The mission will be carrying 13 on board to conduct a variety of research on topics ranging from cosmic radiation and renewable liquid biofuels to motion sickness and cognitive conditions during spaceflight.
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