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they re both really typical test pilots. i ve talked to them both many times. they are both so cool and calm and collected. you wonder if they ever if their pulse ever elevates because they are so on top of every detail here. but it s going to be a slow climb out of the new mexico desert to then get to 50,000 feet to do the release, and then firing the rocket and kicking into 3 1/2 gs, 2300 miles per hour as they go at mach iii up towards the edge of space which as we ve said is in excess of 50,000 miles above the earth sorry, 50 miles above the earth, and that they will probably go to more like 55, 56 miles above the earth. in fact, that s what dave mckay has already done in the same vehicle. why does that matter? it s bragging rights because the nasa and the military say 50 miles is the edge of space. and we ve got the folks over in the bezos camp saying it s really 62 miles. does it matter if you re
semi-nasty comments from the blue origin team saying, we have bigger windows. we go higher. so maybe branson isn t really going into space. okay, fine. but if you re up there and you ve got a fantastic view of the earth and you ve got 17 windows to look out of, most people would think that s a pretty great experience. in no way to diminish the experience from blue origin which as you know is a rocket. you have maybe a bigger space capsule. nonetheless, that s the back and forth going on here. and feathering the wings back when they reenter the atmosphere on the way down, they have to feather the wings so they can eventually deploy them and it lands like a normal glider aircraft on this massive air strip, landing way i mean to say in the new mexico desert. well, tom costello, you are as close as one gets to having been in space, but stand by because i m going to now bring in a couple people who have actually been there to give us their perspective. dr. may jemison is joining me
earth. i ll be interested to see what number they hit. 56 or 50 miles above earth. and nasa and the pentagon recognizes 50 miles into space. what an extraordinary moment. we know next week jeff bezos and blue origin get their turn in a different ship, a rocket. we know elon musk and spacex are working on their own orbital spacecraft. what does this moment? what does this day? what does next week put together? what do they mean for the possibilities in the future? i think this historic moment and the historic moments to come are the first baby steps, if you will, to opening up space for everyone. and, you know, stefanie talked about how right now it s just the billionaires but it was it s reminiscent of the early days of aviation. it s a rare occurrence as somebody flew in an airplane.
see, just to make it clear to anybody who hasn t watched that already, hanging below eve is unity. latched beneath the wing. at 50,000 feet, you ll hear the pilots going through a series of checklists, l 10, l 9, l 8, l stands for launch. literally, they re going through the checklist. when they get to the bottom you ll see them release unity. unity doesn t drop very far. eve pulls away, then unity lights the rocket, the rocket that will carry them up towards 50,000 feet at mach iii. we mentioned it earlier, but this is a hybrid motor that uses both solid and liquid propellants. when they get to altitude they ll have three or four minutes of being weightless. candidly, the fact some of these folks richard has never been in space before. the two of the three passengers have never been in space before. i wonder whether that s going to be so disorienting for the