i ve been waiting a long time. an historic way to move history into orbit. steven levy is the editor at large of wired magazine and was present at the launch. hejoins us from van horn texas. thank you forjoining us. you knowjeff bezos and have worked alongside him on this project, that glee, excitement that we saw from him, he s not putting that on, is he? that on, is he? definitely not, this is his that on, is he? definitely not, this is his passion. that on, is he? definitely not, this is his passion. he - that on, is he? definitely not, this is his passion. he was - that on, is he? definitely not, this is his passion. he was a l this is his passion. he was a teenager, he has been fascinated with space and he wanted to go to space for a long time but his real goal is to build an infrastructure so one day humanity can move to space, he envisions trillions of human beings living in space
0ur correspondent sophie long reports from texas. boarding his 60 foot sub orbital rocket. he was not nervous, he said. just excited. this was notjust about realising a lifelong dream, but expanding his ever growing empire beyond the grip of gravity. with him on this first fully autonomous passenger flight three other civilians his brother mark bezos, 82 year old trail blazing aviator wally funk and 18 year old dutch student 0liver daemen. she was one of mercury 13, a group of american women training to be astronauts but never made it to space. until now. five, four, command engines start, two, one. as you can hear, blue 0rigin s reuseable rocket, carrying its first human passengers and first paying customer, is now on its way to space.