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In new mexico, heres sophie long. preparations were made before take—off... about ten years, and an hour and a half behind schedule, in one of the most desolate areas of north america, a lifelong dream became reality. sir richard branson, along with two pilots and three other virgin galactic employees, were transported to the spaceship unity tethered to the mothership eve. then take—off. this is the moment hes been waiting for. after more than 16 years, and hundreds of millions of pounds, si...

Allowing more and more humans to eventually get the experience of seeing earth from outer space, and so this all started in the morning after a brief delay due to weather and spaceship 2 taking off from spaceport america, attaching to the belly of mother ship eve named after richard bransons own mother. it detached from the mother ship, the rockets fired and piloted by two test pilots and the ship rocketed up to the edge of space and thats where the six people onboard the unity 22 mission offici...

Including sir richard branson -- or the soon to be astronauts, i should say, come out of the building, the hangar behind me. 40 minutes prior to the scheduled takeoff, they will board the vehicle and they will drive out there in some l land landrovers. 40 minutes after takeoff, thats when the mother ship will release spaceship 2. it will be in freef fall. it will blast off. it will be a 60-second burn. the passengers on board will experience about 3g. after that, the motor will cut and they will...

Balloons, for a guy like him to come back and not have a real meaningful word to say says something about the experience, and i think, pamela, what you have there is just a few minutes in weightlessness and just sensory overload, right? first of all, your body and your inner ear is kind of messed up. a lot of people get a little bit sick in that environment. he didnt mention that, but then you look out the window and you have this vision of this beauty that is our spaceship, the one were on. we ...

Training. >> yeah. so the expectations for people only, you know, theyll be flying about 30 people in the back of the flights. here youre doing one and motion sickness is really -- this comes from the discoordination of what youre seeing and your inner ear is feeling. i would say that theres probably rather low probably theyll get motion sick. motion sickness in space is something that is the longer period of time but what theyre going to experience -- you know, the zero g is a very different st...

Rocket at a very accelerated mach 3, 2300 miles per hour and thats 3.5 gs, by the way, on the way to the altitude you mentioned. the bottom line here, theyre trying to achieve that goal of 50 miles to 56 miles above the earth. that would put them very comfortably in what nasa and the military calls the edge of space or into space. as you know, theres been a back and forth. some on the bezos team suggested its not high enough for space. blue origin will go to space and branson wont. it doesnt rea...

As a milestone for the commercial space industry. sir richard said it was the experience of a lifetime. from spaceport america, sophie long reports. preparations were made before take—off... about ten years and an hour and a half behind schedule, in one of the most desolate areas of north america, a lifelong dream became reality. sir richard branson, along with two pilots and three other virgin galactic employees, were transported to the spaceship unity tethered to the mothership eve. then tak...

Sir richard branson, along with two pilots and three other virgin galactic employees, were transported to the spaceship unity tethered to the mothership eve. then take—off. this is the moment hes been waiting for. after more than 16 years and hundreds of millions of pounds, sir richard branson is now on his way to space. thats so cool. so, you can see the moment when they release right there. are you so excited to experience that? forjust under four minutes, they experienced weightlessness and...

The launch was scheduled for 9:00 a.m. eastern. it was delayed about 90 minutes because of some weather overnight in new mexico. virgins billionaire founder richard branson will be on board the spacecraft along with the crew. branson tweeted this new video this morning, apparently biking to galactic space port america. he tweeted, quote, its a beautiful day to go into space. the spacecraft is set to soar 55 miles above the new mexico desert to the very edge of space. lets take a quick look at ...

A second. you have beth moses right in the middle, the chief astronaut instructor at virgin galactic. shes going to be the lead test director in space. shes overseeing the safe execution of the test flight objectives here. as you mentioned, this is a test flight. this is still a test flight. this is not open to everybody. everybody on this flight has a reason for being there. >> reporter: thats absolutely right. and lets talk about -- you talked about when you get the boost, if you will. so, the...