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Training before heading to space. the trip comes in two parts. first this plane carries the spaceship up to 50,000 feet, higher than a normal plane, before dropping it in midair. the spaceship then fires its rocket motor and in less than a minute will be traveling at 2,500 miles an hour. of course, every spaceship needs a pilot. >> you know, the biggest challenges because were in a test flight program is not the actual flying of the vehicle. its anticipating what could go wrong because its a one...

That shows the amount of tremendous excitement for people to go into space. >> when is the first flight going to be? >> we dont give out a date. we want to make sure the test flight program has plenty of time what it needs to make sure we have very safe vehicles. what we can say is were about to enter the glide test phase of our test flight program. right after that will be the rocket-powered phase where we actually are testing out the rocket motor and then were going to be going into space with...