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Virgin Galactic is scheduled to launch its second commercial space flight on Thursday with three passengers who have no background as astronauts.
The 'Galactic 02' mission will send a crew of six into orbit - including three tourists - aboard the VSS Unity spaceplane when it blasts off from New Mexico this afternoon.
Virgin Galactic's first space tourists blasted off inside a spaceplane attached to a 'mothership' carrier plane and are now heading toward space. The spaceplane is set to separate at 44,000ft.
The long-awaited, first civilian space tourism flight by Virgin Galactic was set for takeoff Thursday, carrying an 80-year-old ex-Olympian and a mother and daughter who won their tickets in a sweepstakes.Virgin Galactic competes in the "suborbital" space tourism sector with billionaire Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin, which has already sent 31 people into space using a vertical lift-off rocket.
Virgin Galactic flew its second commercial spaceflight Thursday, its first carrying private-paying tourists.