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You can see how long that took . they dont have hotel rooms in the spaceport behind me. they dont have enough water out here in the middle of nowhere. they cant have too many people flushing toilets. that would be the plan ultimately. i was distracted by the chase plane. you asked me a question. i forgot it. >> do they have a plan to make the actual period in space longer than the four minutes where they spent today? might this be an hour long or whats the idea? >> sorry about that. so, listen, ...

Tom costello reporting early in the morning inside the bubble hell join us because of high winds bringing out that carrier plane. that plane, eve, named after richard bransons late mother. youll get to engineers and astronauts. let me give you perspective of reporters in the desert. plane went to 50,000 feet. then it dropped beneath that and burned that fuel for one minute. a heavy burn. it went straight vertical for a full minute up to 55 miles above sea level. it is a suborbital flight. amazin...

Youve been covering this since its inception. you had that exclusive interview with him and all that he was looking forward to. get inside of his mind. what do you think he is feeling right now now that this successful launch and landing has taken place. >> pardon me for turning my head to you but elation is the answer. moments ago -- in fact, hes still on the screen. im going to ask my photographer, unfortunately we dont have a live feed but its on the big screen here. you can see he is hugging...

Occurrence and just hearing the voice here on the ground saying its right in front of the sun. its overhead of us. i dont see it but youre getting a better view yourself on the tv with those long range telescopic lenses. >> yeah. mike, were down to about 11,000 feet of altitude. 243 miles per hour right now. what does that -- you see it? you have eyes on it, tom? >> reporter: i see it. right over the top of us, willie. right over the top. if you didnt know better, you would think youre looking a...

Own private plane. you can imagine justin bieber and tom hanks and lady gaga and a woman with a thick foreign accent and she could probably afford a private plane ride to get in here. richard branson has his own plane. they fly in here. now ultimately i had a conversation with somebody who is in the virgin galactic hierarchy last night. ultimately they think they have to have hotels, maybe in truth or consequences but thats really remote. so how do you get somebody who is going to pay that kind ...

So in some ways, it would be more difficult for president trump to hide when he is abroad. a chase plane, a chart he plane, as well as the group always with him on air force one than at the white house. as we saw last week, he was essentially dark for five dats. it is impossible to go dark when youre abroad. >> andrea, lets to go this talk about what happened in the white house. sergei kislyak is the russian ambassador to the united states. but sergei lavrov, second to the left, now on the left ...

Test flight photographer is filming an f-18 hornet from a chase plane. >> it was basically filled with concrete. the mission was to find out how the mark 82 would separate from the airplane in an emergency mode. >> dozens of other cameras are also recording the critical test of the navys newest fighter jet. >> they are all stuck all over the airplane and then im there as the insurance policy. if something goes wrong and they lose the airplane, they have my film that can come back and reassemble ...

The fuel burning off. at that point its just get out. >> not everyone can. the pilot of the burning plane is caught inside. >> the airplane itself is starting to spiral down to the ground. >> the broken wing is in flames threatening the skydivers. >> and your instinct is, you know, in the next second probably not going to be alive. >> the wing plummets with the skydivers who are also flying through the air. >> this wing is above us. were falling faster than that wing is through the air and its o...

Test flight photographer is filming an f-18 hornet from a chase plane. >> it was basically filled with concrete. the mission was to find out how the mark 82 would separate from the airplane in an emergency mode. >> dozens of other cameras are also recording the critical test of the navys newest fighter jet. >> they are all stuck all over the airplane and then im there as the insurance policy. if something goes wrong and they lose the airplane, they have my film that can come back and reassemble ...

Off part of the chase planes wing, the plane hepp is in. >> when it hit us, it was nothing. i felt a little bump. not even like when you run into a telephone pole backing up out of a parking place. nothing drastic. but then we did two 360-degree rolls in less than a second and a half. so that got my attention. >> hep and the pilot are the only two people in the plane. as they spin wildly around and around, their plane becomes engulfed in flames. hep doesnt know the plane is on fire and criticall...