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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...

Nine days to be exact, before another billionaire, jeff bezos, plans to launch. rachel crane is live in los angeles with more. good morning, rachel. all right. you're the billionaire-space whisperer, if you will. what's going on? >> well, poppy, this announcement from virgin galactic is a stark departure from what the company was maintaining just a month ago. now, this-upcoming test space flight was supposed to be just for mission specialists and branson was going to be on the flight, following that one. however -- and that was something the company maintained just a month ago. however, that w...