whaend the and when they get there, the hatch will open and they will be greeted by those already up there. and very interesting given the current geopolitical tensions over the situation in ukraine. and laura, it is not just the launch we got to see. the landing too, that booster return at night, always spectacular if you ve never had a chance to see it. yes, very cool. kristen, thanks so much. thanks so much for joining me today. i m laura jarrett. new day starts right now. breaking news. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is wednesday, april 27th, i m john berman with brianna keilar. breaking news, word just in of an expanding war, possibly inside russia. and economically for the first time in a new way over the
civilians. there s much more to come as we ve seen. let me begin our coverage with cnn s kristin fisher. she s live at the launch site and has been covering all this in texas. we know as we saw with the last flight, there s going to be videos coming out and we re going to see a lot more, but it looked flawless. blue origin has to be very, very happy about this mission. it looked flawless. we ll certainly get to hear a bit more about that. we should get some of that video later today of william shatner and the rest of the crew floating around during the precious four minutes of weightlessness. william shatner may be the star of the show today, but that booster return just gave him a run for his money, not the capsule landing, i m talking about the booster that propelled the capsule into space. if you ve never seen one before, and very few people have. up until a few years ago that