There are pilots and passengers.
in New Mexico sometime after 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday. A livestream of the flight will run here at Space.com, courtesy of Virgin Galactic.
After VMS Eve drops VSS Unity, the space plane will fire its onboard rocket motor to power itself to suborbital space. The Galactic 01 crewmembers will experience a few minutes of, and a chance to perform 13 research experiments, before heading back down to Earth. They're expected to touch down at Spaceport America about 90 minutes after liftoff.
The four-passenger crew includes Pantaleone Carlucci, an engineer at the National Research Council of Italy; Col. Walter Villadei of the Italian Air Force, who is training for a future mission on the; Lt. Col. Angelo Landolfi, a physician with the Italian Air Force; and Colin Bennett, an astronaut instructor at Virgin Galactic.
Mike Masucci and Nicola Pecile will pilot VSS Unity, while Kelly Latimer will serve as commander of VMS Eve alongside pilot Jameel Janjua.
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