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Rocket at a very accelerated mach 3, 2300 miles per hour and that's 3.5 gs, by the way, on the way to the altitude you mentioned. the bottom line here, they're 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, there's been a back and forth. some on the bezos team suggested it's not high enough for space. blue origin will go to space and branson won't. it doesn't really matter, you'll be 3 to 4 minutes of weightlessness. the faa and nasa acknowledge it's, in ...

Seeing. now, should government be spending money in space? of course. there is a massive economy in space from satellites for communications, for earth observation, and it's just the beginning as we go beyond this. i for one as an american am very happy the early european kings and queens spent the money they did for us to go -- to be here in america. and i think wherever we end up settling in the decades and centuries ahead, they'll be glad we spent the money we did today. >> marina, talk to me about that because there is tension in this world right now, in a world where there was greater ine...