pretty important day, but you can only imagine how they are feeling now and jeff bezos has been giving interviews in the days running up to it and saying he is not nervous, his excited. i cannot begin to imagine how he must be feeling sitting on a rocket now, can you? how he must be feeling sitting on a rocket now, can you? indeed. we saw them climbing rocket now, can you? indeed. we saw them climbing the rocket now, can you? indeed. we saw them climbing the stairs rocket now, can you? indeed. we saw them climbing the stairs to rocket now, can you? indeed. we saw them climbing the stairs to the - them climbing the stairs to the capsule about half an hour or so ago, so they would have been getting into place and an interesting phrase from keith, the hurry up and wait moment, where all they can do now is wait for the final checks to be done and it is worth reiterating for viewers at just and it is worth reiterating for viewers atjustjoining us at the sing of cans of this. there
and spais ex orbital flight and i m looking for a commercial crew mission because it is all of the progression that is marking how we are commercializing space, not just for people to come and visit, but to use space as a tool to develop new medicines, to develop new technologies. it s going to be very ex-sighing and i m looking forward to the future. we should note, peggy, richard branson has just gotten online to congratulate jeff bezos on the successful launch, the successful landing of this new shepard rocket and the capsule carrying bezos and the crew members. you ll be demanding the spacex mission to the international space station. anything spacex or virgin galactic could learn from down the road? i think all the missions are different so they have different objectives, different training and for axiom, the training not
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strapped into my seat. pete hegseth for the turning point u.s.a. action summit. america is the most free, most diverse and most awesomeness country the world has ever seen. [cheers and applause] i hit the ground i hit the ground steve: yeah, that s jeff bezos he is the richest man on earth. and he will leave the planet in the next two hours as blue origin launches a little before the end of our show today. it is the first manned mission to space for his company and the pause is actually going to be in the capsule at the top of the rocket as it takes off. and there you can see screen left that s the 18-year-old kid whose dad is a i think a financial analyst or hedge fund guy. then you have wally funk, 82 years old. then you have got geraldine ferraro bezos and his brother. they re all going to be sitting on top of that rocket.
of mine to represent the u.s.a. at the olympics. i hope there will be many more chances to make this come true in the future. the game s kick off friday. jeff bezos a day away to join branson as the latest billionaire to blast off in space. the blue origin crew will have leave west texas on new shepard rocket at 9:00 a.m. eastern standard time. tune in to fox later today when bezos sits down with neil cavuto on coast to coast and your world to talk about his flight into the final frontier and guys, those your headlines. pretty exciting stuff there. steve: oldest plus to ever blast into space. wally is 82 years old and 18-year-old kid as well. going to have the ride of a lifetime. brian: fully automated. nothing for anybody to do. go up and enjoy the ride and come back down. ainsley: how long stay up there. brian: weightless for three minutes and 60 miles above the earth. the other branson was 52 miles above the earth.