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I think this company will go forward within the year to fly passengers. we have jeff bezos competing for the same business and the orbital tourism market will open up where spacex who has a space capsule, boeing will have one, they'll fly tourists to hotels in space, as well as the international space station. it's really exciting. arthel: in technical terms, will either commercial flight, richard branson's or of jeff bezos, will they be getting into space and does that matter, can the billionaire battle have a positive impact on how we view the environment, for instance? >> i think you're ont...

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 ...

It does not look like an airplane like most people might view this vehicle and say, oh, it looks likes an airplane, it looks familiar, it looks like the shuttles did. but blue origin system is a space capsule. it's fully automated but as we know, today's pilot was piloted by two pilots. they've had many other piloted flights. they were the gliders, they were the mother ship. of course, this is still in its test phase so i want to point out that all the passengers on board were all wearing parachutes in the off chance there was an anomaly as well as supplemental oxygen on board. i told you we s...

Semi-nasty comments from the blue origin team saying, we have bigger windows. we go higher. so maybe branson isn't really going into space. okay, fine. but if you're up there and you've got a fantastic view of the earth and you've got 17 windows to look out of, most people would think that's a pretty great experience. in no way to diminish the experience from blue origin which as you know is a rocket. you have maybe a bigger space capsule. nonetheless, that's the back and forth going on here. and feathering the wings back when they reenter the atmosphere on the way down, they have to feather t...