you were speaking with william shatner earlier this month. what were your thoughts when you heard he was in fact going up? had a great interview with him. i was very impressed that as a 90-year-old person that he was in such great shape and very mentally sharp and alert, asked some funny questions. we had a great time and it was really a surprise to learn he s about to go fly with blue origin and touch space. it was fantastic, here s a guy i grew up watching at captain kirk helping to inspire me to go to space myself getting that chance to see that spectacular view. you can see the excitement and a little bit of terror. preparing to go into space, and one of the other members of his crew, glen devries, talking about making this million-dollar donation to water.org. he wants to raise awareness for the other issues back home on planet earth as part of this
direct kpeter while bases pos s flight will be after branson. his will go higher past the karman line, the altitude internationally recognized to be the demarcation in space. his company blue origin taking a shot at branson s trip, tweeting their rocket was designed to fly above the karman line. none of ours have a asterisk after their name. if you fly 52 miles. 62 miles you re in space. you don t notice the difference in the distances. any touch space and come back down. both companies have had successful flights over the past decade. but with space travel comes inherent risk. in 2014 a copilot for virgin galactic was killed during a test flight of a previous model of the space craft. i like to say you can do risky things safely if you know the risks you are taking, know the controls you have in place and verify that they are active. and we do just that. i don t think the risk of this flight is high. it s not zero.