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Virgin Galactic's stock jumped 39 percent on Friday - it's largest single-day increase ever - after the FAA gave the space tourism firm the go ahead to take paying customers to the edge of space.
Virgin Galactic began planning Sir Richard Branson's July 4 weekend flight before Monday's announcement that Jeff and Mark Bezos would fly to the edge of space, a source told Parabolic Arc.
Kellie Gerardi, an bioastronautics expert for the International Institute of Astronautical Sciences (IIAS) will travel on VSS Unity from New Mexico when commercial flights begin.