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For now, these trips are only for the super wealthy, but experts say prices should drop. for the young people today particularly, it will become a reality that they could save up some money and choose to go to space, not every day, but it could be something that you could choose to spend a chunk of your savings on, and experience a few minutes of weightlessness. landing gear deployed. the new shepard flight is due to take place injuly. the capsule carrying jeff bezos and his brother will descend...

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Commission to the iss and leo melvin served as nasa education and the only person drafted into the nfl to have flown into space. good morning to all of you rock stars. morgan, you were there on site. they are astronauts well hear from them in about an hour and what a morning its been for them. >> understanding, hallie, 20 miles away from the launch site the middle of the west texas desert and it was so incredibly fitting to see this take place here on the frontier as bezos traded it for another,...

18-year-old oliver damon. two records broken there. kristin fisher is at launch site one in van horn, texas. and kristen, we are going to hear from jeff bezos and the crew soon. excitement as they landed, excitement as they were experiencing weightlessness. i even think one of them said if i heard correctly, do you want a skittle in the midst of that moment. but quite a moment in space. >> reporter: yeah, there was so much cheering, so i just cant wait to see the video from that. but at least we...

82-year-old wally funk who trained to be an astronaut way back in the 1960s but never got to fly because shes a woman, and so now she is finally going to get her chance and also on board that 18-year-old, oliver daman, blue origins first paying customer, but actually his father paid for the trip because he just graduated from high school. those four have been here in west texas training for the last two days, and they are going to be riding on the new shepard sub orbital rocket system, a totally...

Passengers who will pay a boat load of money to get up there. we heard cal reporting they are trying to bring the cost of this down. we had four minutes of weightlessness and there was some experiments that were being done there. also experiments being done as to the panels, the instruments, those kinds of things and how they reacted to weightlessness. they want to get all this documented and continue to enhance and particularly from a safety standpoint make sure that these flights are absolutel...

Team at virgin galactic have been waiting for for nearly two decades, and we have release, brian. we have release. the rocket engine has ignited. this is the moment that branson and his team have been waiting for. brian, i gotta pause. i gotta take this in. this is really an incredible moment here. >> so it was an hour-long trip. and there were a few minutes of weightlessness as well, but the journey to get here was decades in the making. not only did branson make this happen, but he in spectacu...

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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... forjust under four minutes, they experienced weightlessness and enjoyed a view of planet earth that only astronauts can dream of. well, ive done some ridiculous things in my lifetime. that was really, really, really ridiculous. but ijust cant wait for... ..one day to be able to experience this. its the experience of a lifetime. and touchdow...