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If blue origin is to be successful you should run it full time and he hopes you do that. >> well, bob smith is the ceo of blue origin, and he's running it amazingly well. he's been here only a few years. i'm not taking bob's job. but i am going to spend more time on it. i'm going to have the time to spend on it. so i'm going to be right in there rolling up my sleeves deep in it. >> did you know what to expect? i mean intellectually you can know about spaceflight, but to actually go up and experience it. >> we went through about 2 1/2 days of training. we were prepared for basically what a nomi...

Around -- yeah. i totally agree. it feels so natural, almost like we should be doing this, and i hope that we are one of the first and let's hope that many, many more people can do this because this experience, you should share with more and more people. it is so amazing. >> and a special congratulations to you on becoming the youngest person to have ever flown in space. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> you brought with you up there the next generation of space explorer, but certainly another flag up there, the netherlands. to everybody out there, the netherlands, there's the new dutch flying man...

Towards earth. so that, everyone in orbit at all times is weightless. whereas, on these suborbital flights, they are only weightless from the time from when they shut off their rockets, until they fall far enough for the atmosphere to sta start slowing them down. then, they begin to feel sort of g-forces of that and it's only a couple of minutes. so, these are levels of space travel, yes. and a point i made on twitter in the last couple of days is, if you take a schoolroom globe of the earth and ask where's mars? it's a mile away. where is the moon? 30 feet away. where is the international spa...

They were doing all those trainings to get their bodies used to what it feels like with those g-forces. they were also seeing what it feels like to get that weightlessness, traveling with just a few seconds of weightlessness. now i believe what i am seeing is a little bit ahead of what you guys are seeing, but we did get a glimpse into -- inside spaceship 2 and maybe you guys will see it in just a few more minutes. >> we know the speed is slowing down dramatically now. now down to this mach 1. rachel, what does it feel like? is it like a roller coaster where you have that momentary feeling of ...

Dl dream of reaching space. and richard branson becoming the first of the billionaire space barons as he approaches space. you must wonder what he's feeling as he approaches those few moments of weightlessness. >> more than 2,000 miles per hour. put that into perspective for us. >> reporter: the amount of g-forces they must feel. you saw that moment of freefall and the second that rocket engine ignites. those rocket engines are pushed back, and they are literally pressed down with all of those g-forces. when you hear about these soon-to-be astronauts, i should say, but when you hear about how ...