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0ur correspondent sophie long reports from texas. boarding 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 gravity. 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. she was one of 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.
half an hour to go? yes, half an hour to go- half an hour to go? yes, half an hour to go- we half an hour to go? yes, half an hour to go. we got half an hour to go? yes, half an hour to go. we got to half an hour to go? yes, half an hour to go. we got to d-45, i half an hour to go? yes, half an hour to go. we got to d-45, sol half an hour to go? yes, half an i hour to go. we got to d-45, so 45 hour to go. we got to d 45, so 45 minutes before the scheduled take off and it was put on hold for just under half an hour. we do not have the official confirmation of where that was. the weather here is good, it was postponed already by 24 hours, was supposed to have taken place yesterday, but the clock is now taking again and i believe it is william shatner along with the other three passengers on this flight, only the second flight to carry human passengers to the edge of space by blue origin are now about to board the capsule. after that happens, just under half an hour before take of
on why he thinks these space flights are so important. people may focus on william shatner flying today, but they should look at this technology. it is opening up space commerce like we ve never seen before. and notjust tourism, but access to space at a much cheaper and hopefully safer level that we ve ever seen. when we see this, is amazing to see him fly, but the real interesting part is how soon we will not decipher earth and near space, will have an earth moon economic system coming in the next couple of decades and that is where this is truly headed. well when rocket returned to the texas desert, our correspondent sophie long was there to watch. extraordinary day for the future space tourism, this is only the second flight carrying human passengers. people are shouting, there they are. can see the parishes
medicine by drones could change our lives but industrial sites are a good place to prove the systems are safe. i really want to press it. i won t. if the pilot becomes incapacitated, someone just has to press that button and the drone comes home and lands safely. cesda, along with amazon, boeing and volocopter are also working with the uk s aviation regulator, shaping rules that may one day permit drones to transport human passengers. the software doesn t know if it s carrying a camera or a human in a drone taxi. we ll start with simple and end up withjetsons flying cars. after i go on a simulator, i don t think i should be flying any precious cargo. i don t think i m going to be coming for anyone because my job anytime soon. i m quite nervous, even though isn t real! i m going to try to get through that without crashing. argh! i bit more practice needed there! on a similar theme, let s talk about how your deliveries are going to be dropped off in future.