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If blue origin is to be successful you should run it full time and he hopes you do that. >> well, bob smith is the ceo of blue origin, and hes running it amazingly well. hes been here only a few years. im not taking bobs job. but i am going to spend more time on it. im going to have the time to spend on it. so im going to be right in there rolling up my sleeves deep in it. >> did you know what to expect? i mean intellectually you can know about spaceflight, but to actually go up and experience i...

Around -- yeah. i totally agree. it feels so natural, almost like we should be doing this, and i hope that we are one of the first and lets hope that many, many more people can do this because this experience, you should share with more and more people. it is so amazing. >> and a special congratulations to you on becoming the youngest person to have ever flown in space. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> you brought with you up there the next generation of space explorer, but certainly another flag u...

Towards earth. so that, everyone in orbit at all times is weightless. whereas, on these suborbital flights, they are only weightless from the time from when they shut off their rockets, until they fall far enough for the atmosphere to sta start slowing them down. then, they begin to feel sort of g-forces of that and its only a couple of minutes. so, these are levels of space travel, yes. and a point i made on twitter in the last couple of days is, if you take a schoolroom globe of the earth and ...

They were doing all those trainings to get their bodies used to what it feels like with those g-forces. they were also seeing what it feels like to get that weightlessness, traveling with just a few seconds of weightlessness. now i believe what i am seeing is a little bit ahead of what you guys are seeing, but we did get a glimpse into -- inside spaceship 2 and maybe you guys will see it in just a few more minutes. >> we know the speed is slowing down dramatically now. now down to this mach 1. r...

Dl dream of reaching space. and richard branson becoming the first of the billionaire space barons as he approaches space. you must wonder what hes feeling as he approaches those few moments of weightlessness. >> more than 2,000 miles per hour. put that into perspective for us. >> reporter: the amount of g-forces they must feel. you saw that moment of freefall and the second that rocket engine ignites. those rocket engines are pushed back, and they are literally pressed down with all of those g-...

They were weightless for awhile. youre floating there and your system is floating, as well. your sense of motion is a little bit distorted. then you come down and the g-forces build up again. thats what happened to them. i think all of that is overriden by pure joy and exsill ration of what they went through. they had jobs to do. they needed to do that. i think the excitement and the happiness theyre experiencing now is the overriding feeling. >> and tom costello, it looks like a clean, safe tou...

Hours and experience g-forces. i think probably up to 3 1/2 gs for a number of seconds during the boost phase and then the g forces they experience on the way down. but i think its safe and i dont really know how safe it is. well have to see over time. but i think the experience is benign enough and the requirements on the crew are low enough that you could have a pretty broad range of people to be able to have this experience, assuming they could afford it. >> interesting. all right. well, well...

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To burn too much fuel, forcing it into the wrong orbit. >> so we did have obviously some challenges today >> reporter: that meant no docking with the space station and no delivery of food, clothing, and holida presents for the station crew both boeing and spacex have contracts to soon carry american astronauts on american rockets back to space for the first time in nearly nine years. the good news, the on-board dummy rosie did gather critical data on the g-forces those astronauts will face the p...