to do they were going to do it. they went beyond what he could have thought of himself sometimes. six months before the watergate break-in, i got a call to come to john mitchell s office, and liddy is setting up an easel. and i can see he s got big charts. it was a sales pitch. liddy is tasked with coming up with a plan. one chart has different gemstones. he has diamond. he has ruby. sapphire. and each one would represent a phase of his so-called intelligence-gathering program for the campaign. he said we ll have the capacity to intercept an opponent s campaign plane. we ll have a chase plane that will be equipped to intercept their communications. he went on and said what we re going to do is kidnap the leaders of the anti-war movement. we ll drug them and take them
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plane rolling back to the place from which it took off. they will be exited. we have two pilots. richard branson and the other three. now technically astronauts who will be joining him. all of them employees of virgin galactic. it s an exciting time. we ll watch them disembark from the plane and they ll take to a podium and answering a whole bunch of questions. we ll bring it to you here live here on msnbc because we have a team of reporters and analysts to sort through the significance of today s historic flight. we re getting going. look up, tom costello. he s getting information as we go. first to calipe perry who is inw mexico. what are you hearing about today s mission? did everything go according to plan. it looked like it did begging that delay due to weather at the very beginning. so that 90-minute delay at the beginning this morning was really the only thing that didn t go as planned.
you can see how long that took . they don t have hotel rooms in the spaceport behind me. they don t have enough water out here in the middle of nowhere. they can t have too many people flushing toilets. that would be the plan ultimately. i was distracted by the chase plane. you asked me a question. i forgot it. do they have a plan to make the actual period in space longer than the four minutes where they spent today? might this be an hour long or what s the idea? sorry about that. so, listen, they probably are going to require people to come in a day or two in advance because you have to go through your astronaut briefing. that may be a couple of day process. somebody comes in, this is not just show up, get a flight and go home. this is a whole experience. it s a first-class experience from top to bottom. can i also tell you we are waiting right now for richard
tom costello reporting early in the morning inside the bubble he ll join us because of high winds bringing out that carrier plane. that plane, eve, named after richard branson s late mother. you ll get to engineers and astronauts. let me give you perspective of reporters in the desert. plane went to 50,000 feet. then it dropped beneath that and burned that fuel for one minute. a heavy burn. it went straight vertical for a full minute up to 55 miles above sea level. it is a suborbital flight. amazing technology. it rotated basically backwards. it put its engines down the back part of the plane. i m giving this to you in layman s terms intentionally. basically on what is a dead stick glider, it returned down to earth 60 minutes from takeoff until touchdown. i ll let tom correct me if that math is wrong. absolutely amazing especially when you look at this as we
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