notice they get. as far as the training goes, talking about it was controversial. these people are astronauts who visited the carmen line, it is not the actual training, that clearly a nasa professional goes through. bill: he is always a gentleman. we are waiting for the astronauts were space visitors pop out. michael strahan stands out, a tall guy, 6 foot 5, in traditional space travel, the
there you can see the capsule from the top of the booster. they re continuing their ascent over the carmen line. you ll know when they ve hit apogee when the speed hits zero. there they are, over 328,000 feet, over 100 kilometers. welcome to space, the newest astronauts on board our crew capsule. there they are. they are just about hit sthar
desert after having gone up over the carmen line and back. hello everyone. i m kate bolduan. we re beginning with breaking news. just a beautiful sight to see. star trek actor william shatner making history as the oldest person ever to go to space. just over ten minutes ago as we all watched it play out, the 90-year-old and three crew mates blasted off aboard blue origin s new shepard rocket which took billionaire jeff bezos into space just in july. the rocket soared up to about three times the speed of sound, reached an altitude of more than 60 miles high, achieving a few beautiful yet brief minutes of weightlessness. then, as we all just saw, landing back to earth once a again, shatner s flight is the sixth flight this year carrying
ten minutes long from start to finish, about four minutes of weightlessness, but this crew of four people, they will indeed cross the carmen line, the historical marker, the defining line between the boundary of space and earth s atmosphere. and so they are going to cross that line, but they re in the going to go fully into orbit, which is what we saw spacex s mission do. it is incredible to think about the fact that we have had six crude launches from u.s. soil in just six months after nearly a decade of zero human space flights from u.s. soil. and so one of the other crew members on this mission, glen de vries, he says that 2021, this year, is going to go down in history as the moment when humanity finally began moving into space at scale. and we re still quite a few ways at the very beginning of that, a
gone up over the carmen line and back. here is a shot of them awaiting the recovery team. i understand they ve had communication with the four astronauts and they have all given the thumbs up that they re doing okay after an exhilarating flight to space and back. awaiting that recovery them and that champagne shower.