The launch of "Virtute-1", the first commercial space flight by Virgin Galactic created by tycoon Richard Branson, was a success, a founding event for the new era of government-funded commercial space research missions. Performing the mission were eight people, including four Italians: two Italian Air Force officers and an engineer from the National Research Council who in the VSS Unity cabin transformed into a laboratory for 90 minutes of flight for a series of suborbital scientific experiments, and Nicola Pecile, a former lieutenant in the Italian Air Force now on Virgin Galactic's team of pilots. A historic and all-Italian space flight, then, funded by the Italian Air Force in collaboration with CNR, the first in a series of planned subsequent missions. Specifically, Colonel Walter Villadei, mission commander, Lieutenant Colonel and Doctor Angelo Landolfi and CNR engineer Pantaleone Carlucci conducted 13 experiments examining the areas of thermofluid dynamics, biomedicine and the development of innovative and sustainable materials in microgravity conditions. They will also collect data through wearable sensors and both actively and passively operated instrumentation. In particular, Walter Villadei was in charge of the passively managed experiments, as well as wearing a state-of-the-art smart suit to measure his biometric data and physiological responses.