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Cheering making the final footsteps towards realising their dreams. how are you feeling? feeling great! jon goodwin and mother—and—daughter duo keisha schahaff and ana mayers make their way to the spaceship unity. then at 8.30 local time, lift—off, on schedule and in perfect conditions. this is the momentjon goodwin has been waiting for a quarter of his life. he is now on his way to space on virgin galactic�*s first private passenger flight. three, two, one. release, release, release. and this is what it's all about, as the spaceship unity hit apogee more than 50 miles above the earth'...

To our unity pilot kelly for her first space flight. three minutes of weightlessness and views of our planet that only astronauts have ever experienced. you are so much more connected to everything than you would expect to be. like, you felt like a part of the team, a part of the ship, a part of the universe, a part of earth. it was incredible. we welcome our crew back as they come in for landing. as unity glided back down to the new mexico desert, there was jubilation and relief. i'm still up there and it's just amazing that you can land so smoothly on the runway, coming back from space. safe...

Floating around, weightlessness and you were mentioning a number of firsts. also the first majority female flight with the crew and passengers. they're getting the atmosphere, not black ceiling. this will last 3 to 5 minutes and start their descent. what's unique about this flight is they are taking off and landing on the runway behind me just as you would on a normal airplane. not the vertical rocket launch. more palatable if you are a consumer going into space. the cost, john goodwin paid $250,018 years ago. i don't know if you heard that. that's what they call the sonic boom. that means we'...

Statistics on this. now, what happens is that rocket ship then reaches a certain altitude, and then they experience, everyone on board that you're seeing strapped in there, experiences three to four minutes of weightlessness. that is what it is all for, and we just talked about how this is now the space race for commercial space flight, chris, so what you're going to hear from is the mother/daughter duo, this is really special, the first mother daughter duo to make it to the edge of space, and what this trip meant for them. listen for yourself. >> i'm hoping to give myself that confidence to t...