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Funding for this program. there have been all sorts of technical difficulties along the way. first with the rocket and the space launch system. nasa's ig put out this report yesterday which essentially said that the space suits that these astronauts are supposed to wear are going to be at least a year late. they won't be ready until 2025, a year past this 2024 goal. what's more, nasa will have bored in about a billion dollars into these space suits and yet they still won't be ready in time. this ig is saying part of the problem is that 27 different companies are supplying components for this s...

Launch. how is he feeling? >> reporter: brianna, that's right. you know, we're approaching that 24-hour mark here before bezos and his crew make this historic flight. they've been on the ground here in west texas, going through their training. the last few days they're wearing their space suits. as you can imagine, brianna, they are pretty excited. take a listen. this journey to space is a dream come true for all of you. so tell me -- jeff, kick it off with you, how are you all feeling right now? >> excited. i'm so excited and curious. you know, everybody who has been to space, every astronaut...

For our viewers, it's important to remember that this is still a test flight. virgin galactic saying they don't expect to start their commercial operations until the beginning of 2022, and as a result they're taking extra safety precautions. everybody on board will be, in fact, wearing a parachute. the company has not said if that will continue beyond the test flight program, but everybody on board today, we know that they will be wearing parachutes with their space suits. also supplemental oxygen on board for the paenssengers. we'll see i ammages from insidee cabins on the livestream. the pil...

Any effort to cast blame on china was a distraction from the effort to blame donald trump. now donald trump is out of office. can we finally blame china? apparently now it's okay and safe to do so. the reality is of course it came from the lab. there is zero evidence to show that it came naturally. look at the evidence in the lab, okay? it happened in wuhan which just happens to be the home of china's premier lab studying bat coronavirus. we know in 2018 u.s. diplomats warned about lacks safety prax practices and they were doing gain of function experiments on coronavirus and doing it at biosa...

>> fine here. >> okay. good luck. >> thank you, gunner. >> see you around, gunner. >> proceed. >> roger. we are proceeding with closing the hatch. >> roger. >> the hatch is closed. >> roger. >> the hatch is closing, and we're beginning to purge the cabin to bring it to the proper atmosphere for launch, which is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen, 60% oxygen and 40% nitrogen. of course, the astronauts themselves are breathing pure oxygen through their space suits. coming up shortly will be another key test with the launch crew from the launch crew and the spacecraft team combine together with...