full circle, 55 years ago. he was beginning his star trek career as the captain of the enterprise and he has said he said it to me on camera, now his life is coming full circle. 55 years later. he s actually going into space, and that s what makes this fun for him and fun for us to join him along the way. 9:10 in texas, just a few moments from now, we re just over 21 minutes. still with us is our all-star panel. also, morgan chesky near the launch site, a former nasa astronauts may jenison, scott kelly, clayton emerson, and leroy chow. i want to bring in former nasa astronaut, a man who has spent a whole lot of time in space, scott kelly. scott, for someone like you, this is exciting. for science enthusiasts, they are thrilled to watch this. why should the average american care? well, i think when you fly
flights like this, you know, with a celebrity or some other person that gets some extra attention, you just show the public how the accessibility of spaceflight is becoming more broad. hopefully, eventually, the cost will come down. i don t think these flights mean we re going to be jumping on a rocket like we jump on airplanes anytime soon, but it is a step in that direction. clayton, i want to ask you as we re looking at this, one of the things i m particularly fascinated by is the size of the windows on the capsule. this is clearly designed so that people can enjoy the view, as short as three minutes can be in zero gravity. it must be extraordinary to see so much of something that, well, we re never able to see from down here. the organization and the way
0 i wouldn t say all of it is aimed towards that. of course, any commercial veteran needs to turn a profit in order to stay in business. so it s partially about that. it s partially about helping jeff bezos realize his big picture dream of colonizing what we call sis lunar space, the area between low earth orbit and the moon. this is a small first step for jeff bezos and blue origin, showing that they can launch people successfully into space and they have other rockets and bigger ambitions on the drawing board. if you want to take really big picture view of it, in jeff bezos mind, this is all about saving planet earth by helping to move industries off planet. but in the shorter term, the company needs to turn a profit in order to keep going. and you can see right now, jose i want to point out, you can see, in addition to looking at the four astronauts to the left on your screen is jeff bezos. he, of course, is not going to be aboard this craft. i interviewed him after the last