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His brother, which we were just seeing as well, is going with him. they call each other their best friends. its interesting that he chose to take his brother and also that he reached out to wally as well. >> said he wanted his brother with him for this flight. and, you know, back to kind of growing up or spending his summers here in west texas, jeff bezos also had a pretty near death experience back in 2003 when he was scouting land for this west texas launch site. he was scouting for land in a ...

The world will be watching. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you, rachel. >> thank you. >> thanks, rachel. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: brianna, one of the reasons that bezos feels so confident in the safety of the system is because what the vehicle has whats called a full envelope escape. meaning from the moment they close that hatch to separation, they have the ability to escape and abort if necessary. now, this morning, bezos and his crew theyre busy doing the media rounds, s...

Fu funk who was a group of mercury women who trained in the 1950s but never flew and shes an 80-year-old flight and she will become the oldest person to ever fly in space. and listen to how jeff bezos described what it was like to train with her. >> ill just tell you, wally, back in the early 60s, when she was in the mercury 13, she went through the tests and outperformed all of the men and we could confirm shes still outperforming all of the men. >> reporter: and so all four have been training ...

Inside the simulator that all four have been training in. >> there you go, you are all buckled in and ready to go to space. >> reporter: this is a big window. >> as youre ascending, essentially it feels like the earth is falling away from you. >> joining us from van horn, texas, nbc news correspondent morgan chesky. morgan, the countdown clock is on and the launch pad is ready, im told. whats the level of anticipation in texas right now? >> reporter: its a lot of excitement here, geoff. 18 hours...

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And the birth of a new industry. >> theres no intended science mission for this. but theres a lot of engineering that is being put on display. all right? a rocket plane. a plane that is deployed from another plane. its not from a launch pad as we saw from videos. that goes to high altitude and then comes back and lands like a regular plane. so it spends a small amount of time in what we say suborbital. billionaires have big ee gos. why wouldnt they? its their money. its advancing an engineering ...

>> absolutely. i dont know since they were up there for about four minute, i dont know if they got -- they were up there long enough to experience a lot of the different things that happen. there are a couple of things that do happen when youre up in a nongravitational environment. i label it the charlie brown effect. it starts when youre on the launch pad sitting on your back for three hours and your fluids shift toward your head. once you get up in space, your head physically gets bigger. that...

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Nonetheless does illustrate things a little bit. >> talk to us a little bit about safety. as much as this is exciting, there is so much risk involved in going into space always. the american space program has experienced some of these highs and some of the lows with the expl explosions. how confident are you that this is going to be a safe mission, especially for branson? the virgin galactic had a test pilot die in 2014. there is something hanging over this scenario here. >> yes. space is, by de...