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World Service,29 Jun 2023,26 mins
Virgin Galactic to launch first commercial flight to space
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
Virgin Galactic is launching its first commercial spaceflight called Galactic 01. Three Italians are on board, along with a Virgin Galactic instructor and the spaceplane's two pilots. Sri Lanka's central bank has unveiled a plan to restructure government debt in an attempt to restore economic stability. The debt restructuring is part of a bailout programme Sri Lanka agreed with the International Monetary Fund in March. China holds more than half of the foreign debt. Lookalikes of Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift and Freddie Mercury - among others – are angry with have Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram. They're unhappy about a Meta rule that bans accounts of people "pretending to be someone famous". We speak to one of them. (Picture: Virgin Galactic's suborbital rocket powered crewed spaceplane in United States, New Mexico: Spaceport America. Source: Getty Images)
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