launch. how is he feeling? reporter: brianna, that s right. you know, we re approaching that 24-hour mark here before bezos and his crew make this historic flight. they ve been on the ground here in west texas, going through their training. the last few days they re wearing their space suits. as you can imagine, brianna, they are pretty excited. take a listen. this journey to space is a dream come true for all of you. so tell me jeff, kick it off with you, how are you all feeling right now? excited. i m so excited and curious. you know, everybody who has been to space, every astronaut comes back and they say that it changed them somehow. they see the thin limb of the earth s atmosphere and realize how fragile the earth is. they see it s just one planet. so i don t know how it s going to change me, but i know it s going to. and i m excited to find out how.
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for our viewers, it s important to remember that this is still a test flight. virgin galactic saying they don t expect to start their commercial operations until the beginning of 2022, and as a result they re taking extra safety precautions. everybody on board will be, in fact, wearing a parachute. the company has not said if that will continue beyond the test flight program, but everybody on board today, we know that they will be wearing parachutes with their space suits. also supplemental oxygen on board for the paenssengers. we ll see i ammages from insidee cabins on the livestream. the pilots wear oxygen. the passengers do not. this is still the fourth test flight for virgin galactic to date. they will have the ability, if there is cabin depressurization, to put oxygen masks on. also mike moses, the safety for
and i just hope that somebody who had never dreamed of going into space wins that raffle and they can also bring a friend, come to the space factory. i will give them a view of the space factory. maybe we ll have some chocolates as well. just chocolates. but yeah, we give them a magical experience. now, when people think of virgin galactic, they think of people giving astronaut wings like the ones you have on your space suits. they also don t realize there s a research component. can you tell us a little bit about the research you conducted and was it difficult to conduct this research on this, you know, rather short, suborbital journey? absolutely. it was not difficult. actually, it was an excellent ride. i was able to actuate all three of the tubes i had that were carrying plants. but this is a capability that you can t parallel with anything on earth. you get minutes of microgravity that doesn t exist on any