higher. does that matter? when the world looked up at the first private launch, the only thing we saw were words virgin galactic. i think you re right. i don t think it matters. honestly, i think bezos and blue origin team took such backlash for comment on friday suggesting branson isn t going high enough, they re not really astronauts. there was such backlash that you saw yesterday bezos come out, congratulate branson, say he hopes to soon join the club. in other words, yes, you made it to space. but listen, there are bragging rights involved and nobody is a better show man than richard branson. he perfected this over 50 years. and everything yesterday was meticulously perfectly done. bezos is going to have his chance, bite at the apple next week. clearly they want to put on a show. branson set the bar high. and you re right, it is about
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