step to achieving some day that vision. because by doing this over and over, they get their reps in, they get more comfortable with human space flight and with launching pay loads and research experiments in to space. if you have any doubt about how blue origin is feeling and they were just playing we are the champions , so i think they re feeling good about now. kristen, thank you for the great reporting on ground. let s talk about this with dr. may jameson, the first african-american to fly into space. your thoughts this morning? you have accomplished so much. you just watched what that team did along with, i should note, 82-year-old wally funk. first of all, it was very beautiful. it was something that for me is a combination of engineering as well as the will to do this in a
well. and you know, we ve gone through many gyrations to actually get human news space over more than half a century now. but we re still just scratching the surface. we have a long ways to go. but it is exciting. it is really exciting thing to see how space is being open to the rest of humanity, not just to a selected few. doctor jameson, you have such a unique perspective on this because of your six years as an astronaut with nasa and also because of the work you did prior in the peace corp and serving in africa and dealing with real humanitarian krcrisisn earth and giving the duality how you see the debate now offer billionaires spending a lot of their money to go to space? so, i think that when we look at space exploration, there is always been this tension about
because what we do with space, technology, with capabilities, depends on people who are involved with it. depending on people who have the perspective and could apply it to things like agriculture here on earth, could apply it to helping developing countries map roads and chart even disease outbreaks. so it is a very exciting time. yeah, of course. in this case you have a for-profit and space tourism, right, poppy, the opportunity for individuals and private citizens to buy a ticket to space and i wonder if you could say today, poppy, we saw the first commercial space liner, right. maybe. maybe. we know you want to go. jim sciutto, you re young and they think that in the next few decades, maybe it is more affordable. we ll see. dr. jameson, stand by. don t go anywhere. let me bring in brad stone and author of the newest book
dr. jameson, the first african-american woman to fly into space with us also. former astronaut franklin cheng diaz. he flew seven missions with nasa. founded nasa advanced propulsion laboratory and founded the ad astra rocket company and so a lot of firsts here. great to have two astronauts on. and perhaps i could begin with you, franklin. listen, space is hard under any circumstances for anybody to get. this is a 11 minute flight, just aboof 62 miles so above the carman line known as the beginning of spaceal throw there is some debate there. tell us for someone like you that have flown seven missions what an achievement this was. put it into context for us? yeah, well it is a great achievement. space is hard. everything that is done, it involved a lot of risk and i m very glad that everything went
and have the opportunity and bezos to extend that opportunity for her to fly, i believe it is very special and i m excited for her. dr. jameson, you mentioned that difference here. you flew to space during a time when it was at least for americans the sole province of nasa. a massive government institution and government and military institution. app now you have not just bezos company but others flying tourists to space but in the case of elon musk, flying commercial pay loads and government pay loads to space. including astronauts to the space station. what difference does it make for this to now be something that business people can get into? does that increase grow human beings exploration of space? so, i need to clean up a