could pay that pretty penny of $250,000, hearing names -- he would never confirm the likes of steven hawkinsustin bieber and ashton kutcher, celebrities who could pay that ticket to experience for, as you point out, mere minutes of weightlessness and just really the awe. if you can't get through nasa training and become an astronaut, for us regular people -- >> this was our hope. >> thank you so much, rachel crain. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for staying with us. stay with cnn. jake tapper will be all over a tragic, tragic day here in mojave, california. jake tapper, to you. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we're going to begin of course with the breaking news. in a week where we have already witnessed one fiery setback for the civilian space program, today another huge blow with much more serious consequences. at least one pilot has died after virgin galactic's spaceshiptwo crashed in california's mojave, desert. pieces of it could be spotted in this virtual no-man's-land. spaceshiptwo was the noes well known