more broader audience. did you think you would see it in your lifetime, scott? i think so. i hope to have a couple of decades at least ahead of me. so if you think back about when we flew the first airplane in 1903. and 1969, we re landing people on the moon, that s an impressive feat. who knows what the next 20 or 30 years will bring us. morgan chesky, what are you excited see today? reporter: well, jose, we were back here in late july and we saw this inaugural flight take off with jeff bezos onboard. and i would have to tell you, having witnessed one of these, that it would be lessened somewhat. but to stand here just a few miles away from this launch pad and see captain kirk hop onboard that capsule, this is a nervous, exciting energy starting to build here, especially as we see that countdown clock hit 15 minutes after that hold of about half an hour here.
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
0 i wouldn t say all of it is aimed towards that. of course, any commercial veteran needs to turn a profit in order to stay in business. so it s partially about that. it s partially about helping jeff bezos realize his big picture dream of colonizing what we call sis lunar space, the area between low earth orbit and the moon. this is a small first step for jeff bezos and blue origin, showing that they can launch people successfully into space and they have other rockets and bigger ambitions on the drawing board. if you want to take really big picture view of it, in jeff bezos mind, this is all about saving planet earth by helping to move industries off planet. but in the shorter term, the company needs to turn a profit in order to keep going. and you can see right now, jose i want to point out, you can see, in addition to looking at the four astronauts to the left on your screen is jeff bezos. he, of course, is not going to be aboard this craft. i interviewed him after the last