the view. riding will be their only job. it s an autonomous vehicle. it s been designed so that the customers, the astronauts themselves, can experience the flight. reporter: over the first two minutes their speed will literally rocket to more than 2,000 miles an hour. g forces will intensify until each person feels as if they weigh three times as much as normal. but that won t last. at 2:45, the booster engine will fall away. 15 seconds later as the capsule arcs toward the highest point in the flight, the passengers will start to feel much lighter. and at 4 minutes 62 miles up, they will be unbuckled. you ll get to experience about 3 to 4 minutes of weightlessness. again, to gaze out of those big beautiful windows, maybe do a couple summer salts. 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. reporter: he ll have to find out fast. roughly six minutes into the flight they will return to their seats and start falling back to
weigh three times as much as normal. but that won t last. at 2:45, the booster engine will fall away, 15 seconds later as the capsule arcs toward the highest point in the flight, the passengers will start to feel much lighter. and at 4 minutes, 62 miles up, they will be unbuckled. you will get to experience about three to four minutes of weightlessness again to gaze out of the beautiful windows, maybe do a coupkocouple somersaults. i don t know hugh it will change me, but i m excited to find out how. reporter: roughly six minutes into the flight, they returnhug change me, but i m excited to find out how. reporter: roughly six minutes into the flight, they return to t their seats and break the sound barrier just as they did going up. they won t likely see the booster engine land a couple miles from the launch pad. and about nine minutes after taking off, parachutes will deploy to slow their descent to
fall away. 15 seconds later as the capsule arced toward the highest point of the flight, the passengers will start to feel much lighter. and at four minutes, 62 miles up, they ll be unbuckled. you ll get to experience three to four minutes of weightlessness. again, to gaze out of those big beautiful windows, maybe do a couple somersaults. i don t know how it s going to change me, but i know it s going to. i m excited to find out how. he ll have to find out fast. roughly six minutes into the flight, they ll return to their seats and start falling back to earth. eventually going so fast they ll break the sound barrier just as they did going up. they won t likely see the booster engine land a couple miles from the launch pad. and once they re close enough to earth, about nine minutes after taking off, parachutes will deploy to slow their descent to 15 miles per hour. then, a retro thrust system will fire just before touchdown. really by the time the capsule lands, it s just at
flight. reporter: over the first two minutes, their speed will literally rocket to more than 2,000 miles an hour. g-forces will intensify, until each person feels as if they weigh three-times as much as normal. but that won t last. at two minutes and 45 seconds, the booster engine will fall away. 15 seconds later, as the capsule arcs towards the highest point in the flight, the passengers will start to feel much lighter. and at four minutes, 62 miles up, they will be unbuckled. you will get to experience about three to four minutes of weightlessness. again, to gaze out of those big, beautiful windows. maybe, do a couple of somersaults. 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. reporter: he will have to find out, fast. roughly six minutes into the flight, they will return to their seats and start falling, back, to earth. eventually, going so fast, they ll break the sound barrier, just as they did going up. they won t like
tapes. it s so strange. you re suddenly, i said my words back to kids down here, unbuckled and the next moment i see three people floating below me. look out of the window and just, it s i m sorry never going to be able to do it justice. it s indescribably beautiful. yeah. any way. thanks, richard. we have a question at the back here. just a quick question. you exude such confidence. is there even a small part of you feeling perhaps an intense relief that it all went as planned today? look, we have nearly a thousands of the best engineers in the world, including, some of