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You can see how long that took . they don't have hotel rooms in the spaceport behind me. they don't have enough water out here in the middle of nowhere. they can't have too many people flushing toilets. that would be the plan ultimately. i was distracted by the chase plane. you asked me a question. i forgot it. >> do they have a plan to make the actual period in space longer than the four minutes where they spent today? might this be an hour long or what's the idea? >> sorry about that. so, listen, they probably are going to require people to come in a day or two in advance because you have to...

Tom costello reporting early in the morning inside the bubble he'll join us because of high winds bringing out that carrier plane. that plane, eve, named after richard branson's late mother. you'll get to engineers and astronauts. let me give you perspective of reporters in the desert. plane went to 50,000 feet. then it dropped beneath that and burned that fuel for one minute. a heavy burn. it went straight vertical for a full minute up to 55 miles above sea level. it is a suborbital flight. amazing technology. it rotated basically backwards. it put its engines down the back part of the plane....

You've been covering this since its inception. you had that exclusive interview with him and all that he was looking forward to. get inside of his mind. what do you think he is feeling right now now that this successful launch and landing has taken place. >> pardon me for turning my head to you but elation is the answer. moments ago -- in fact, he's still on the screen. i'm going to ask my photographer, unfortunately we don't have a live feed but it's on the big screen here. you can see he is hugging his grandchildren. he hugged his son. can you get a sense of that? i wish we had a clean feed ...

Occurrence and just hearing the voice here on the ground saying it's right in front of the sun. it's overhead of us. i don't see it but you're getting a better view yourself on the tv with those long range telescopic lenses. >> yeah. mike, we're down to about 11,000 feet of altitude. 243 miles per hour right now. what does that -- you see it? you have eyes on it, tom? >> reporter: i see it. right over the top of us, willie. right over the top. if you didn't know better, you would think you're looking at a typical passenger plane. just flying right over the top of the space port as it comes aro...

Own private plane. you can imagine justin bieber and tom hanks and lady gaga and a woman with a thick foreign accent and she could probably afford a private plane ride to get in here. richard branson has his own plane. they fly in here. now ultimately i had a conversation with somebody who is in the virgin galactic hierarchy last night. ultimately they think they have to have hotels, maybe in truth or consequences but that's really remote. so how do you get somebody who is going to pay that kind of money and who is going to come in and we're staying in the nicest hotel is a beautiful courtyard...