here in the united states even though there is some immunity involved with getting over covid or having a testing option. germany calls that the 3g s. the third is a rapid test. a rapid test may be the most predictive of all that you re not contagious or infectious but germany, as you know, under the new incoming chancellor may be about to go to a more superimposed vaccine mandate and lockdown. so these are shifting terrains, but i think the question is how do you get people to comply, how do you get people comfortable without them quitting their jobs. mike: we have a reporting on a new variant out of south africa, concerns about it spreading, hitting young people. what do know about it, how concerned are you? i ve said before i m not a was concerned about these variantses of concern, but these this one, b11529, does concern me. i ll tell you why. it s got 32 mutations in the protein which is how the virus spreads, and in the province around johannesburg, there s
after that, the rocket will ignite. the passengers on board will experience about 3g s. the motor will be cut and that s when the passengers will express a few moments of weightlessness, the moment richard branson has been waiting for since he was a child. hopefully we ll get views from inside the cabin. after those moments of weightless, the mission will be deployed and the pilots and the passengers will glide back to earth here at spacesport america, and in typical richard branson style, they have created quite an event around this space flight. we know there will be a musical performance by khaled and lots of people in the audience, richard branson s friends and family have come, but we know that elon musk also in the crowd
we re just a few minutes away from that critical moment when vss unity will be released from mother ship eve and it will be in freefall for a few seconds. that s when the rocket motor will ignite, blasting this spaceship up to the very edge of space and the passengers will experience about 3g s of air. we re getting a different image of richard branson inside vss unity. that rocket burn will happen for about 60 seconds, and that s when the spaceship will finally touch the edge of space. it will pass about 50 miles above the earth. that here in the u.s. is deemed the board of space by nasa, faa, the air force. of course, it is not the karma line. there was the question, whether this is really space. nasa and the air force designate