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Want hydrogen on the second stage of a vehicle that is designed not only to go into low earth orbit but to bodies outside of the earth orbit. and then the other reason we chose it is because it is the most environmentally benign propellant you can choose. when you burn hydrogen and oxygen, you get h2 o. it's water. and it's -- that's another thing. for a tourism mission, that was important to us as well. that's why we chose this architecture you see behind me, and the engineering team did an incredible job. they also really built two vehicles. what you see is not really a vehicle. because i co...

Needed for safety has a back up. and in most cases, there is a back up to the back up, and i really mean every system, so i can give you a few examples. the biggest back up system on board is the crew escape system. if there is something that's detected that's wrong with the rocket, it will automatically ignite a solid rocking motor that will propel the sap sul from the module and land safety. we have three parachutes on board, we have never had a failure. but only one has to open to land safely, and that's just to start. every computer on board. every battery, every sensor, every wire, every ...

Affordable compared to what these seats have been going for. in terms of these billionaire space barons, yes, people think it's no coincidence that richard branson bumped up his launch after jeff bezos announced he would be going on july 20th. he insists this is not a competition, that they had a successful test flight back in may and this was the logical next step. but you can't miss the fact that just two days ago, blue origin, virgin galactic's competitor, put out the differences between these two. the fact that blue origin goes higher into space, the fact they have bigger windows on their ...

Down, there are no wings on it, and it does have an escape system. so if something happens, that capsule on top can jetjettison y from it. they feel so confident they're putting jeff bezos on top of it in a few days. but they also feel very confident about the safety of this vehicle. this will be their fourth crude test flight up into space, the first time it is fuellylly crew. one other thing, fareed, it was such a treat to see how richard branson decided to get to spaceport america today. one of the reasons he talked so much about going up into space is the positive effect it can have on hum...

They mention that they have an escape system and that they have done 15 safe flights as opposed to three by virgin galactic. and i have to be quick here with this, but there is a safety issue that comes into play tomorrow, they haven't had that many safe flights. if, god forbid, something goes wrong would that impact and hurt the private space industry? >> this is a very krit kral for virgin galactic. in 2014 they had a tragic accident during a test flight of another vehicle, the enterprise, this one is unity. it has safety enhancement to eliminate the pilot error. virgin galactic did lose one...