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But they havent yet committed to a special price. >> not clear how high those get, but at least if the wings dont work, you can still drive to your destination. >> thats right. >> this week marked the anniversary of the first human space flight. now were talking about human tourism. are we going to get to go there? >> absolutely. maybe not our generation but our kids generation. they are taking pre-orders with companies called sir galactic. for as low as 20,000 for a deposit. this will let you g...

Deployed just in case. so pretty neat stuff from terafujia. i think theyre going to go for about a couple hundred grand but they havent yet committed to a specific price. >> interesting. not clear how high those get, but at least if the wings dont work, you can still drive to your destination. there is some consolation in that. this week we marked the 50th anniversary as the first human space flight, now were talking about space tourism. are we going to get to go there? >> absolutely. maybe not ...

With you go through the maximum aerodynamic pressure? the elegant on the chest? >> one word is "acceleration." its amazing. youre on your back, like a big hydraulic press just hits you on the back and it never stops going. it keeps pushing and pushing, and 8 1/2 minutes you get that kind of acceleration. >> reporter: brooke, the next major milestone comes at 8:30, when the giant orange tank separates. at that point youre in space. youre free-floating, in space, youre done. >> whats the moment of...

>> shepard: crew spends their time living and working just like astronauts on the space station except for weightlessness and the nights view. made up of four sealed compartments, including the living space the sides of a bus and areas for experiments and exercise. and the martian surface similarity is a room with sand on the floor. clearly the space agency spared no expense but the pretend astronauts played along, even putting on 66-pound space suits to go for a spacewalk today. and then planti...

To astronauts on board the international space station and we also had a little bit of fun with those guys. >> i did a zero g flight off the coast of california and i know its a minuscule part of what you guys are going through, but i got to experience the weightlessness. are you strapped in to something thats keeping y ining you stil? or how are you not floating away on us? oh, there they go. they are floating away on us. so i thought you guys were going to be hooked in, but obviously youre not...

Jemison, the first african-american woman astronaut in space. dr. jemison, thank you for being with us. tell us a little bit about what theyre experiencing out there in space as they are out there with this thing that is the size of a fridge, even though theres weightlessness, what are the issues theyre facing? >> i think you had been talking about it before. one of the issues is that the coolant pump itself has a lot of mass or weight. even though its weightless, you might think about being in ...

The middle there would be the rocket-propelled thing -- >> right. >> -- that would come out and send the thing -- >> there you go. >> theres the fuselage, the back of that has a rocket in it. here it is, it same down in the mojave desert, the fuselage will be attached. and that part will leave. >> if im one of the six people on the flight, it would take off, the whole operation would take off and at some point that breaks away. >> the jet. that big hole is the jet that sends you off. >> that goe...

Branson is the muscle and money behind this, weve all seen these rockets blast off from the earth. this one actually blasts off from 50,000 feet up. the mother ship looks like a giant catamaran. this is the first test flight where they had the rocket attached to it. the rocket is called spaceship 2, also known as bss enterprise. it can carry six passengers. it goes from 60,000 feet to six miles, thats low-orbit. thats where the passengers can experience weightlessness as well as see the curvatur...

Didnt see any combat. graves was also a gifted musician playing the clarinet and the saxophone. at the university of minnesota he met his calling, acting, and his wife. together they had three daughters. eventually graves followed his big brother to hollywood, first landing small roles on television. he adopted his maternal grandfathers name as a way to distinguish himself from arnez. it came when graves played a nazi spy living among american p.o.w.s, a string of other parts followed. >> my car...

Together they had three daughters. eventually graves followed his big brother to hollywood, first landing small roles on television. he adopted his maternal grandfathers name to distinguish himself from arness. his big break came in the movie classic "stalag 17." he played a nazi spy living among american pows. >> my career has taken turns to do interesting things. so im lucky that way. >> reporter: best known for playing authority figures he was hesitant to parody himself in "airplane" at first...