closed it and we launched. these things happen. it s not that unexpected. one of the many things they do to prepare for this, even the morning of, is sort of a last-minute medical check. may, help us understand the kind of message clearance one needs. william shatner, for example, is not a trained astronaut. and while he s a beloved american, he s 90 years old. i don t actually know what all the checks are that they do, but what you want to do is to make sure that people s blood pressure was within reason, that there s no new abnormalities with their heart. you want to make sure their sensory perception is normal. but normally you would have done that all before. and you ll know what kind of condition they re in before you suggest or nominate them for the mission. i think it s going to be a
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
and 14 minutes away, we have that crew of four onboard, including 90-year-old william shatner, captain kirk, about to become the oldest space traveler in history. three to four minutes of weightlessness before coming back down for a soft landing. cannot wait to hear the reactions on the other side of this. jose? may, when morgan mentioned watching the last launch, i was there. and as one standing on the ground, watching it, smelling it, experiencing it is something that i will never forget. as someone who has actually been in space, when you watch this and think back to your experiences in outer space, what was your most memorable moment? let me just underscore how exciting a launch is. the first time i ever saw a shuttle launch, i had worked that launch the night before, as one of the support astronauts for kennedy space center. so launches give you this visceral feeling, where you feel
designed to cushion the fall. as we have heard from william shatner say, as excited as he is to go up into space, he ll be just as excited if not more so to come back and have that smooth landing. guys? may, we are now inside the ten-minute mark. what are the final check points? so mission control will be running through everything they need to know to make sure the rocket is safe and the mission is safe. whether it be looking at weather, whether it s making sure that the engines and all of those pieces, there s going to be a series of factors that will be considered and weighed and made sure that they re correct. for crew will be having for me, it s a big spoil on my face and you ll be watching very carefully and not wanting to go into another hold, so you can have this experience. so, you know, again, you have to make sure that the weather is
and getting the people back healthy and happy. what is it that these four people are going to be experiencing for those three minutes? years ago, years ago, i was onboard the spasta, nasa s zero gravity airplane, where they did praables, 30 to 60 seconds of zero gravity as they went on this arch. is that what they ll be experiencing for three minutes, may? that s basically what you re going to see. because by the time you actually get up and come back down, you get that three minutes of zero gs. so there will be the excitement of that. looking out the window, doing everything, somersaults, whatever you want to do, and get back into place. of course, you ll be looking out at the horizon. it s not going to be looking out at the horizon, for me, it s going to be looking at the earth