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Thank you. if all goes well, by this time tomorrow, jeff bezos won't just be the richest man in the world but one of the first civilians to fly in a unpiloted sub- orbital flight, making it to the edge of space. cbs' mark strassmann reports on how bezos and team are preparing for the big launch. >> reporter: as jeff bezos sees space... >> we are excited. >> reporter: two days of training is all he needs, all anyone needs, to become an astronaut. so, this is an exact replica of what they'll fly on tuesday? >> exactly. >> reporter: this woman showed us blue origin's capsule simulator. the window...

Laboratory mission and then up to the space station. so i got to enjoy more time of micro gravity as we call it and of course we're operating experiments the majority of the time. so you have to get used to that operating in that micro gravity. and it is a wonderful feeling and amazing how the body can get used to it. the inspection of the spacecraft after landing is important to see if there are any improvements need to be made. >> and back to what your body is feeling, help people understand what richard branson might be experiencing now back on earth. granted he is not up there weeks like y...

Unity down, lighting its rocket and taking off into space. i think in your mind, you're going through your checklist of things you're supposed to do. as tom said, you're getting this excitement. think about yourself and micro gravity, looking back at the planet the first time and getting this perspective shift. you may not be doing all your tasks right away. but we trained for so many years -- i trained for ten years as an astronaut to make sure that i focus, hyper focused on the task at hand. c.j. sterkow is actually flying the vms. one of the things he told me when i was about to launch in s...

Agenda well there is so much on going to start with alex first of all one of the experiments is my oh my old son's is basically going to look at how microgravity affects the muscular system of this really important because we shoot things up into space all the time that we really don't know how space affects humans in space think about all the colonies we want to build we don't know how space is going to affect us if we procreate there's no not much experimentation going into evolutionary biology so that's going to be really important there's also icarus it's an experiment that's going to trac...

Foundation will grow crystals in micro gravity where they grow larger than on earth and hoping to lead to improved treatment for people with parkinsons. and the big total solar eclipse that everybody is buzzing about, the crew on the space station will see the eclipse three times. once over the west coast, once over kentucky and the shadow of the moon over south carolina as it heads into the atlantic. the first time in 38 years that the united states, americans can look up or with special sunglasses during a total solar eclipse. very exciting. >> sandra: so many exciting things happening. phil...