a super sonic plane that took to decades to build, hoping to inspire the next generation of space explorers. to all you kids down there, i was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. now i m an adult in a spaceship with other wonderful adults looking down to our beautiful, beautiful earth. to the next generation of dreamers, if we can do this, just imagine what you can do. hey! and look at this. this is sirisha bandla of virgin galactic riding on branson s shoulders as the team celebrated. she moved to the united states from india at 4 years old, always dreamed of becoming an astronaut, with her grandfather watching the whole thing live via telecast. they re here. sir richard branson and sirisha
you and a friend, if you win the raffle can go to space. now, the money that people put in. if enough people put it in, we could have dozens of people going for free on the back of t that. sir richard, for you, you re very young to have accomplished this. you re also one of very few women, the second woman born in india to leave the earth s atmosphere. 51 women in the united states have gone to space. you have lamented how rare it is for women, especially women of color, to achieve what you have. how do you change that? i think mentors and putting more astronauts into the world. when i was trying to figure out how to get to space, i was looking at neil armstrong and the gemini and apollo astronauts. all of them were incredible, but i didn t share an identity with them. but then i saw someone that i felt like i looked like.
unity blasting off in midair after separating from the mothership. shooting up toward the edge of space. welcome to space! reporter: four minutes of weightlessness. woo! reporter: 53 miles above the earth s surface, sending a message to children all around the world. to all you kids down there, i was once a child with a dream. looking up to the stars. now i m an adult in a spaceship, looking down to our beautiful, beautiful earth. reporter: branson speaking with us just moments after landing, sporting those new astronaut wings. everything i ve dreamt about since i was a kid came true and more today. and i ve been to space! excuse us. excuse us. reporter: those wings. branson s next mission, get even more people into space. now, hopefully we can start working hard to make the dream come true for many, many people. reporter: and tonight, the
blasting off in midair after separating from the mother ship. shooting up toward the edge of space. welcome to space jashgs! reporter: four minutes of weightlessness. 53 miles above the earth s surface, sending a message to children all around the world. to all you kids down there, i was once a child with a dream. looking up to the stars. now i m an adult in a spaceship, looking down to our beautiful, beautiful earth. reporter: branson speaking with us just moments after landing, sporting those new astronaut wings. everything i ve dreamt about since i was a kid came true and more today. and i ve been to space! excuse us. reporter: those wings. branson s next mission, get even more people into space. now, hopefully we can start working hard to make the dream
there s thousands of people behind getting the launch made, getting vehicles prepared. those are the things we need to understand. how do we use that. it is a synergistic effect. doctor, can you help us understand the difference between two missions in terms of timing. richard branson won the space race, he was up there first. talk about how different bezos mission will be a week from now? there are two different vehicles. one vehicle launches like they see a rocket, blue origin has a different size and capsule. my understanding is that you have about the same time and weightlessness. neither of these vehicles goes in orbit around the earth, they do a big go up like a roller coaster, come down. at the top you have about three