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Kilometres up, and the rocket will cause go to the Edge Of Space, where there is zero gravity and weightlessness for a few moments. Those are the live pictures as they start that 90 minute live lets bring in dr stefania soldini, senior lecturer in space engineering. She is in liverpool and also watching these pictures. Is in liverpool and also watching these ictures. ,. ,. , these pictures. How excited are you to see a mission these pictures. How excited are you to see a mission like these pictu...

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The vss unity should have separated from the mothership which took it to 50,000 feet. we should be well above that. rockets have activated. well do a quick reset for you. its the top of the hour. 11:00 a.m. eastern. if youre joining us, about 15 minutes ago the virgin galactic took off in new mexico. the plan was that it would get up to 50,000 feet, which is just higher than what commercial airlines typically fly at and they would separate from the mothership. the mothership would come back down...

Around and head back to earth. its a par bollic flight. it goes from the ground up. faster that. the speed of sound and turn around and head back down. it will land, for our purposes, like an airplane. i want to go to tom costello at the site of the launch. the virgin galactic launch site. its a big loud celebration there. what were looking for is information. do we know what happened yet, tom? >> reporter: yeah. we do we need to find the live feed. well get you the live feed right now. im looki...

Flight, a passenger test flight, but a test flight. and the ship has been redesigned, safety enhancements since we had a tragic accident in 2014 in which a test pilot was killed. he was killed because they deployed that feather wing system that you discussed earlier, they deployed it too early and literally the entire aircraft came apart. so they are very, very conscious of how critical it is that they do all of this right on time, right on the money. i talked to the chief pilot multiple times d...

Youre checking all the systems to make sure everything is a go. you have people in mission control in charge of hydraulics, propulsion, these different areas that need everyone to give a sign-off before you start running down the runway. and i think that when i launched in space in 2008, you know, we were actually just launched in 2007, and we had some engine -- actually, its rolling right now. so theyre a little bit late, but -- yeah. >> leland is a better tv anchor than i am. he noticed it was...

It. what youre looking at there is what happened earlier this morning. this is going to play out until they reach that altitude 45,000 feet and then thats when well have the spaceship detachment from the mothership and rocketing up to, as we mentioned many times already, climbing up to 50,000 feet or 56,000. in fact, if theyre able to replicate what they have done with the test pilots, as well. right now what youre looking at is the launch. it happened awhile ago. you have a feed that shows you ...

Earth. ill be interested to see what number they hit. 56 or 50 miles above earth. and nasa and the pentagon recognizes 50 miles into space. >> what an extraordinary moment. we know next week jeff bezos and blue origin get their turn in a different ship, a rocket. we know elon musk and spacex are working on their own orbital spacecraft. what does this moment? what does this day? what does next week put together? what do they mean for the possibilities in the future? >> i think this historic momen...

Here. one reason they take off in the early morning as peter is a better expert than i am. you want to avoid taking off in the extreme afternoon heat 100 degree temperatures here in new mexico. >> peter, tell us, again, we are talking about 45 or 50,000 feet above earth when the ship itself "vss unity" will detach. this then propels itself -- it will then as soon as the mothership falls away, as you said, the rocket will ignite shortly thereafter? immediately thereafter? >> yeah. a time to get t...