is at 100 kilometers which worked out to 62 miles sox in my eyes, if you fly 50 miles or 62 miles you re in space. you won t notice the difference between the 12 miles. neither go into the orbit. they touch space and come right back down which is why they are so short. understood. i would take it in a second. they get a little bit of weightlessness at that level where virgin galactic is going? absolutely. once they get into orbit and hit the top of their flight profile, then they ll get a little bit of zero g. as if he fall back down. leroy ciao, i m green with jealousy at the experiences you are able to have up in space. thank you for your service in space. thank you. and we ll be right back. virtually 100%. helping to prevent gum disease and bad breath.
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leroy ciao is here to give us his thoughts and what it means for the future of space exploration. thanks for having me. so i understand it s called kepler 452-b. what can you tell us about what we discovered about this earth-like planet? well, the interesting thing about kepler it seems to be in the goldilocks sun. so the energy that is radiated on the planet gives it a temperature that s like not too cold and not too hot. just about right. so if the building blocks for life are there s the possibility that life could exist on the planet. so the space telescope, what kind of data can it collect? are we talking about images? you mentioned temperature reading too. what kind of data can it collect? well basically, it can look very far out into the galaxy and detect planets by looking at basically at their shadows as they cross across the sun. their own stars.