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A big responsibility. were the first private citizen crew to go to the international space station. so frankly, we need to get this thing right. >> they have a much bigger plan. the first all-private and commercial life habitat space station. the astronauts are all inside settled into the spacex dragon in their seats. the hatch is docked and the arm has been pulled away from the rocket stack. they will dock with the space station tomorrow and do research for eight days. after three days of very ...

Kind of interesting. one of the things thats worth pointing out is the bezos approach, the blue origin approach, does have a crew escape system. in other words, the capsule can be fired away from the rocket stack. if something goes wrong as theyre flying toward the edge of space. so there is a level of safety there that, frankly, isnt available in the virgin galactic flight which doesnt have a crew escape system. beyond that, i think the other thing thats worth pointing out here is the pr panach...

Three, two, one. spacex is about to launch another mission to the international space station. phil keating is in miami with the latest. good to see you there, phil. is it true that both the racket and the capsule have flown before? >> yes. most of this rocket stack has blown before. the bottom 150 feet, that propelled a cargo ship to the space station in august. the dragon capsule it superintendent hauled up cargo and supplies up to the space station almost two years ago to the day. these are f...

International space station is right now. research is being done there. about 150 miles off the earth. but if you want to go anywhere else, you need a different kind of spacecraft. this is the new ride being tested today. >> this looks a lot like apollo. its on that massive rocket stack. the capsule itself almost looks like apollo. within the next hour its going to pass through this critical radiation belt. a high radiation impact zone. why do we care? what matters? >> if you were on the spacecr...