miles above earth. you ll remember, richard branson and virgin galactic, they went 50 miles above earth, that is blue origin s one-upmanship here. and that is when they re going to feel three minutes of weightlessness. they can unstrap from their seats, you see floating here right now. they re going to be able to explore. look at these huge windows. they re about 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 feet wide. they re really big. they re the biggest windows to fly into space. this is the three minutes of fun here, and it s a quick three minutes. then that crew capsule will start falling back to earth. gravity will take hold. and that is when we ll see three parachutes deploy to help guide that crew capsule back into the texas desert. there s going to be a recovery crew nearby. and jose and steph, we ll have to wait 22 minutes until that hatch opens and we can ask everybody how it was. garrett, first, i want to
origin has said that it does have significant safety features onboard, should anything go wrong. and that includes the ability to actually jettison that capsule on top of the rocket, away from that tlurs, at any point during flight. whether that be on the launch pad, whether that be as it starts to take off, or as it starts to enter that edge of space there, crossing that carmen line. they said they ve tested this repeatedly and that s why they re confident in some of the safe gaurds in place here, that should something go wrong with the tlurs, that capsule would be able to leave entirely and return to earth. and in doing so, you can still make a safe landing on the earth s surface with two out of its three chutes still working there and those seats we ve seen are built so they can withstand g-forces on landing. they re planning for a very soft landing in the texas desert. but should that not be the case, those seats are especially
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
you can see its descent towards the texas desert and its landing which raised a cloud of dust. let s hear what william shatner had to say to jeff bozos after heading into space. what you have done, everybody in the world needs to do. everybody in the world needs to do. everybody in the world needs to see. it was unbelievable. i mean, the little things, just but to see the blue colour and was staring into the blackness, that is the thing. the covering of blue, the plaintiff,
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