new shepard mission said they hope to do if and when they finally get up into space, if this countdown clock ever starts going again. then they ll fall back down to earth with the assistance, of course, of gravity and the assistance of those three big parachutes. jim, one other very important thing to point out, in addition to a rocket launch which should be going in about 15 minutes if this hold ever stops, we re also going to get to see a booster landing which was once described as one of the rarest of beasts, just until a few years ago, this is something that was truly the stuff of science fiction, much like captain kirk and star trek and the starship enterprise. and now, one more example of science fiction becoming reality with companies like blue origins and elon musk s spacex coming up with this incredible technology to reuse these boosters, to land them back on planet earth and
you are in space and what it could mean moving forward. as we ve got these 15 minutes, a little more now, what are you most interested in today with this particular launch, miles? well, i m interested in it being a safe and enjoyable ride, number one. the thrill of seeing bill shatner do this is great. i will point out that there is a character in the star trek series by the name of miles o brien. i guess they stole my name. i really feel like i should be on board with him as part of the star trek themed launch. somehow my invitation got lost in the mail. each of these flights, inc increm incrementally, as they pull them off safely, we all have some fun with it. each of them leads us to making this more of a truly routine thing, i think. by the way, miles, don t try to squeeze in on my very public
model. i ve got to say one word here about the intersection of hollywood and reality here. for years and years and years, people would come and visit nasa and say, so where is the zero gravity room and why don t you go at warp speed? in other words, the reality never was as good as what we saw on the silver screen. here we re having the confluence point where hollywood meets reality and the reality is still a long way behind warp speed. we saw a week or so ago when the inspiration 4 crew went to space, one of the crew members was sick for most of the occasion, the toilet didn t work so well. it s not as utopian as star trek. reality meets hollywood here and we re still trying to have the realities catch up to the science fiction vision. having shatner at this pivot
this is bbc news, the headlines: the eu vice president has set out plans to deal with the row over northern ireland s border post brexit. the measures include reducing checks on goods between the british mainland and northern ireland. president biden has announced longer hours at america s largest port los angeles as part of an effort to ease supply chain blockages in the run up to the busy christmas shopping season. president putin says european countries should not blame russia for high gas prices, saying they failed to replenish their stocks during the summer when costs were lower. he denied russia was using energy as a weapon. the star trek actor william shatner has blasted off into space along with three other crew members on board the blue origin spacecraft. at the age of 90, he s become the oldest person to fly to the edge of space.
quite a vague term and hard to prosecute. really i think priti patel has a huge problem here. you have had more than 18,000 migrants try to cross the channel and for all the people it is definitely sad and desperately dangerous and i think that she is not the end of her tether and desperately trying to find ways to quell this problem both politically and practically. because she nearly lost herjob in the recent reshuffle because of it. but i think this is going to cost quite a backlash even among tory mps. let s end up with space and captain kirk from star trek, william shatner, the actor who is 90, blasting off into space courtesy of jeff bates us. and those of us who grew up watching star trek thought he was permanently in space on the starship enterprise. but it turns out he is been on earth although somebody squeezed in ten minutes but anyway he was very emotional about his ten minutes in space. yes.