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"new shepard" reusable rocket system. so take it all together. the timing of it happening within a year and a half of itself. it really represents the end of the government's monopoly on human space travel. >> even though a lot of the contracts that spacex, bezos, and others are going for are government contracts. colonel hadfield, bezos was framing this as building a road to space, building an infrastructure that a few generations from now kids in a dorm room who have some, you know, idea like they would have about the internet today can actually build on that infrastructure and make their id...

The rest of his all civilian crew and that should happen momentarily. i'm here with kristin fisher since early this morning watching the preparations and the remarkable launch and successful -- it is incredible to see that split screen shot of the rocket booster which had returned to earth, landed vertically which is a huge accomplishment and the capsule had also safely returned to earth, both reusable and both symbols of this new age of space. >> a fully reusable rocket system. this one of course only suborbital. spacex doing the orbital ones. but i mean, what -- i just keep thi thinking abou...

Taking flight at 9:00 a.m. eastern. now to kristin also here at the launch site. >> and this is a moment that jeff bezos and blue origin have been working towards for 21 years, the first time that people are actually riding up into space on one of their own rockets. these four crew members have been training here at launch site one for the last two days and now they will be lifting off on the new shepherd system which is essentially a reusable rocket system, very different from what we saw virgin today lactic and richard branson to just nine days ago. that was a super sonic space plane with my...

It's a moment that gives you goosebumps. we as reporters have moments that we put in the memory book forever that we hold onto for the rest of our lives. this is one of them for me. >> and my kids are watching, your kitds are watching, and ths will one day be normal. rachel, the notion of a space plane, a spaceport, all this language. this is going to become common language probably sooner rather than later. is that fair to say? >> reporter: that's right. i also want to point out, you talked about space plane, but this, of course, is a rocket-powered space plane that branson and his team have ...

Set to ride his own company's rocket into space, in the coming days. the two men have jockeyed for the astronomical bragging rights that come with being first. branson has insisted that that's no space race with bezos and that the missions are different. >> the kind of experience you are going to get with the two -- the two companies were -- are almost as different as -- so we don't see ourself as a direct competitor. >> reporter: while bezos's flight will be after branson's, his rocket system, new shepherd, will go even higher. past the carmen line, which is the altitude internationally recog...