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Training before heading to space. the trip comes in two parts. first this plane carries the spaceship up to 50,000 feet, higher than a normal plane, before dropping it in midair. the spaceship then fires its rocket motor and in less than a minute will be traveling at 2,500 miles an hour. of course, every spaceship needs a pilot. >> you know, the biggest challenges because we're in a test flight program is not the actual flying of the vehicle. it's anticipating what could go wrong because it's a one-of-a-kind airplane. >> reporter: virgin claims the trips into space will are lower carbon emissi...

That shows the amount of tremendous excitement for people to go into space. >> when is the first flight going to be? >> we don't give out a date. we want to make sure the test flight program has plenty of time what it needs to make sure we have very safe vehicles. what we can say is we're about to enter the glide test phase of our test flight program. right after that will be the rocket-powered phase where we actually are testing out the rocket motor and then we're going to be going into space with commercial service soon after that. we plan to be going into space next year. >> what do you get...