realising a lifelong dream, but expanding his ever growing empire beyond the grip of gravty. with him on this first fully autonomous passenger flight three other civilians his brother mark bezos, 82 year old trail blazing aviator wally funk, and 18 year old dutch student 0liver daemen. wally was one of the mercury 13, a group of american women training to be astronauts but never made it to space. until now. five, four, command engines start, two, one. as you can hear, blue 0rigin s reuseable rocket, carrying its first human passengers and first paying customer, is now on its way to space. blast off for the new shepard, lift off for space tourism.
his rocket ship, new shepard. on the flight was the oldest person who has been to space 82 year old wally funk, and the youngest, 18 year old oliver daemen. our correspondent sophie long reports from texas. preparing to board his 60 foot sub orbital rocket. he was not nervous, he said. just excited. this was notjust about realising a lifelong dream, but expanding his ever growing empire beyond the grip of gravty. with him on this first fully autonomous passenger flight three other civilians his brother mark bezos, 82 year old trail blazing aviator wally funk and 18 year old dutch student oliver daemen. she was one of the victory13, a group of american women training to be astronauts but never made it to space. until
on the flight with him was the oldest person who has been to space, 82 year old wally funk, and the youngest, 18 year old oliver daemen. our correspondent sophie long reports from texas. preparing to board his 60 foot sub orbital rocket. this was notjust about realising a lifelong dream, but expanding his ever growing empire beyond the grip of gravty. with him on this first fully autonomous passenger flight his brother mark bezos, 82 year old trail blazing aviator wally funk and 18 year old dutch student oliver daemen. six, five, four, command engines start, two, one. as you can hear, blue origin s reuseable rocket, carrying its first human passengers and first paying customer, is now on its way to space.