Do that i think is just absolutely so essential to be able to give us the capacities to make this next Essential Step that micchio was talking about. 11 minutes 10 seconds away from launch. Lets just quickly go to Poppy Harlow and jim sciutto. Guys . Good morning, everyone. What a morning. Im Poppy Harlow. And im jim sciutto. One small step for man, One Giant Leap for mankind. 52 years to the day after those words were uttered by Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon. Moments from now we will witness a new leap for mankind. Poppy, two private launches to space in the span of nine days. I mean, a remarkable new normal. Still a pricey ticket to space, no question, but does this over time become even more normal, more accessible . Were witnessing a moment of history right now. We certainly are. As one expert put it, the dawning of the Public Space age. What youre watching if youre just joining our coverage live here on cnn is the final count down. Literally, we are ten minutes from launch. Jeff bezos will launch himself and three fellow soon to be astronauts in space. Jeffs Brother Mark bezos along with pilot Wally Funk will be the oldest person in space at 82 years young, and 18yearold Oliver Damon. They will all go to space. And, jim, we just heard those words, right . We just heard them say new shepherd is ready for launch. Reminiscent of the moments weve seen from Mission Control in previous space launches, right, each Mission Commander saying, go, go, go. And then finally the Lead Commander saying, we are ready, we are ready for launch. Lets get to our Colleague Anderson Cooper who is on the ground there from Launch Site 1. Anderson, take it away. Yeah, a lot of people waited a very long time and worked very hard to make this happen. Under ten minutes now. Good morning, im Anderson Cooper at Launch Site 1 near van horn, texas. There is a go for launch, we are told. Some nine minutes to go. Any moment now, Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin will launch its first crewed mission to the edge of space. The 11minute Ride is going to take him and his crew from here in West Texas to beyond the Carmen Line, an invisible line that many say is the edge of space. Back again, his ride notably higher in altitude than Billionaire Rival Richard Bransons Mission nine days ago. A different Mission Today on a rocket, a vertical takeoff and vertical Booster Landing. We have other guests as well, Colonel Chris Hatfield, Retired Astronaut mcdowell, astrophysicist, well get to all of them. Bezos is expected to travel further than branson did, rachel. There is obviously competition with spacex as well, so theres a lot of eyes watching this in the space community. Thats right. And you know, Elon Musk tweeting this morning to Blue Origin, wishing them well. We have not yet heard from Richard Branson wishing Blue Origin or Jeff Bezos well. That might be coming in the future. There is this competitive spirit between the companies we saw right before Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic made their historic flight Blue Origin pointing out there would be an asterisk by the name of those astronauts because they did not cross that Carmen Line which is the international demarcation of space. They were only going 50 miles above earth, which is what nasa, the military and the faa designate as space. The international line is 62 miles above earth, so thats what Blue Origin will cross today, both the booster and the capsule. So the astronauts, the space participants, the people On Board will become the space participants, rather, will become astronauts all over the globe, not just in the u. S. So, you know, this is something that theyve all been dreaming about their whole lives, this moment here. Blue origin was founded 20 years ago, and anderson, we are getting right down T Minus 7 minutes. Two minutes before left off, thats when theyll go into autonomous mode. When the count down gets to zero, thats when the rocket ignites. It lifts off 6 seconds after that. And right before that were going to see the gimball checks. Youre going to see the hydraulic checks. I just want to tell our audience what to expect in the coming moments here. And, kristen, On Board inside that capsule when we get some glimpses of them with the giant windows, onethird of the capsule is all windows for people to get a good view. Talk about who is On Board. Well, youve got the wealthiest man on planet earth, Jeff Bezos, his Brother Mark, 82yearold Wally Funk who trained to be an Astronaut Way back in the 1960s, but back then women were not allowed to fly. Now she gets her chance. And 18yearold Oliver Damon, Talk About a graduation gift. It doesnt get much better than this for an aspiring pilot and astronaut. You know, one thing to notice as, you know, were just a few minutes away from lift off, this is going to be so different from the shuttle launches that we see at the cape when youre right by the water. Were in the middle of a desert with this backdrop of the mountains. Its just going to look quite different and, you know, you want this really remote setting for a Rocket Launch to test rockets because it is so incredibly dangerous, of course. But this new shepherd reusable spacecraft, 15 consecutive Test Flights which is why Blue Origin feels so confident about sending these four Crew Members in space. 15 consecutive Test Flights. This is the first time they have humans On Board. And first paying customer, too. I want to bring in Colonel Hatfield, Retired Astronaut. Colonel, for these four in the capsule right now, what do you think theyre feeling . Its like there are two or three people inside their own head at once. Part of them is just focusing on whats happening and the training that they took, doing their bit right. Part of it is just like a surreality. Can this be happening to me . Wally has been dreaming about this since she was a young girl. Jeff, for everybody On Board, there is like this little kid inside them running around screaming how excited they are. All that is inside their heads. Theyre not worried about the danger. What theyre most worried about now, in the next five minutes, someone is going to say stop. They want to go. Thats the feeling, a great urge to get this thing going. Its T Minus 4 minutes 15 seconds. So, at this point the danger, you dont think, is something thats in their mind . If youve waited until 4 minutes before launch to start thinking about the danger, you are a very badass astronaut. You need to have dealt with that in advance. You accept it. Everything worth doing in life has risks. This is worth doing. Lets get over that part and live through the experience, do everybody on my part to have success today. When that rocket takes off and you go from zero to mach 3, more than 2,000 miles per hour, what does that whats that like . Its the ultimate dragster i mean, going straight up, you know, with this great force squishing you in your chair. You have to bowl your way up through the atmosphere. Its a pretty blunt object, so there will be a whole bunch of vibration. Theres Jet Stream and Wind Shear on the way up. Theyre going to be shaken. Their Back Teeth are going to rattle. All of that will end in just under three minutes after launch. There will be this instantaneous wham and like magic, some Big Gorilla has been jumping on you and just threw you off a cliff, and suddenly youre weightless. Theyre all just about to experience that. Like a Big Gorilla has been jumping on you and then throw you off a cliff i love that. Thats i get that. And the weightlessness, i mean, it lasts for some three minutes or so. Its got to go feel like just a few seconds. Its got to go by so quick. Anderson, i was in space for six months total and it still felt like it went by so quick. Its so magically different than the rest of my life. And so i think the real important thing is to just live it. Absolutely absorb, become hyper aware. Focus on whats going on around you. The difference of weightlessness and the amazing view out the window. You have to be a sponge, a human sponge, absorbing the magical experience. Miles obrien, we are two minutes from launch. Its quite a moment. I love Chris Hatfield and the gorilla analogy. Thats good stuff. Thats darn near poetry. You know, this this is an important moment. Its a Milestone Moment and, you know, anderson, when you think about The Big Picture here, we all know that we have a finite time for this solar system. Were talking billions of years, but it is a finite thing. Going back to what micchio was saying, dinosaurs didnt know they were headed for extinction. We know were headed for extinction. One way or another, we might do it to ourselves sooner. The idea of becoming a multiplanet, multisolar system is about keeping humanity alive. This is a small step along the way, but an important one. Of course, its on the anniversary, the Day Man first landed on the moon. This last minute, lets just watch and just listen and experience this launch. Tminus 16. Guidance internal. Tminus 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. Commander start. 2. 1. 5,000 feet. Max q. 30,000 feet, not quite. [ applause ] the booster is about to separate from the capsule at any moment. Its supposed to separate at about 228,000 feet. And then at 3 minutes, 3 minutes from launch, which is very shortly, weightlessness, theyll begin to experience zero gravity and they can float around. Woo oh, wow. Look out the window. Oh, wow. Woo watching this as well is Colonel Chris Hatfield. Colonel, as you watch this, what do you think . You know, i love flying rockets, but i feel so helpless watching rockets. I cant do anything to help those guys. But it looks like the rocket has done its job. The hydrogen oxygen engine, reusable throttleable, it got them to the edge of space. Theyre already up there in space. I just want to make sure all the mechanical things work properly so the crew On Board can truly experience the amazing sequence of events theyre going through right now. So theres still a lot of systems have to work, but so far so good. Colonel, lets listen in. The astronauts are speaking. We just have to wait for it. Yay oneminute warning. Oneminute warning. The oneminute warning is telling them they have one more Minute Left of weightlessness, then they have to get back into their seats, buckle in because theyre going to start to fall back to earth, and theyre going to Pickup Speed very, very quickly, 5 1 2 gs on the way down at one point. Theres three parachutes that will be deployed, ultimately slowing down the capsule. Look at that. Its dark up here. Its dark up here. Everybody in . Astronaut oliver. Oliver, sound check. Oliver. Copy astronaut wally. Wally. Got the astronaut demo. Astronaut demo behind me. Copy. Astronaut bezos . Its their Mission Control checking in with each of the four passengers On Board. They are now strapped back into their seats and they are now descending back to earth. The Booster Rocket is also descending to earth. It is going it should actually land shortly in a vertical position so that it can be reused, future launches as well as the capsule. Will be able to be reused. What was that . Explain that. So, anderson, what we just heard was the Sonic Booms from the Booster Landing back here on the Landing Pad just two miles away from where that booster took off. This is all part of that reusability of Blue Origin and this new era of Space Travel, being able to reuse the system. No longer the one and done of the past. We heard the Sonic Boom when it was coming back down here on earth. Now were just waiting for the capsule. Thats the next major milestone. But as you can see, we can see it right there, that pinpoint landing. I mean, anderson, thats a thing of beauty for Blue Origin. Incredible. Look at that thing. This is now the third time that that booster has flown to space. Nailed that landing. Now, theres the capsule. In just a few minutes were going to see three, hopefully three Big Parachutes come out to allow that capsule to descend gently to the desert floor. Even if three para chutes dont come out, they have contingencies in place. Thats the redundancy we were talking about and why Blue Origin believes this is such a safe capsule and reusable rocket. And, boy, we dont need the video from inside the capsule to know those astronauts had a great time. There you see the parachutes have been deployed. Lets listen. The drove parachutes. Well see the main parachutes in just a moment. There are also some thrusters on the capsule itself to help fall into position. Thats right. What were going to see right before it lands is a big kick of dust. Theres Retro Thrusters on the bottom, to basically create an Air Cushion. So that is a very comfortable landing. As we were talking about, they were going 2300 miles per hour. By the time this thing lands, anderson, its going to be going 1 to 2 miles per hour, and that Air Cushion underneath is really going to just make it that much more of a comfortable landing. But we are about to see this thing land, and those astronauts, i cannot wait to hear about this journey and to hear what their experience was like. Miles obrien, as youre watching this, this is extraordinary just how short this entire adventure was. Yeah, and its but its still kind of scary, anderson. You know, when youre talking about rockets [ cheers and applause ] welcome back to earth. Congratulations to All Of You. Very happy. It worked so great. To everybody who made this possible, thank you. Oliver, it is so much. It was amazing. Copy. We are very happy here as well. Lets do a status check. Astronaut oliver. Copy. Astronaut demo. Astronaut demo. Astronaut demo, i am unbelievably good. Copy. To control, bezos, best day ever. Yeah. Copy, everyone. Go ahead and remain in your seats. Crew member 7 is on their way. Shortly you will hear my main mission was accomplished. [ laughter ] about five minutes. Control, 010,110 feet. Thank you. Both the Booster Rocket and the capsule have all returned relatively close to where certainly the capsule, from where they launched. It wont be long before the crew is actually taken out of that capsule. As we wait for that, Colonel Hatfield is with us, Astrophysicist And Colonel obrien. What do you think . I wish the team of Blue Origin congratulations. This is an extremely hard thing to do. It looks like things are virtually perfect. Maybe a couple things in there, theyre going to learn a lot from this. But the main objective, the four Crew Members are safely back on earth. The other thing, anderson, each of those four brandnew astronauts need to decide what are they going to do with this experience. Do they keep it to themselves, how do they share it, how do they effect their own lives, how do they use this experience to try and impact other peoples lives. Its kind of an amazing Open Door for them that theyre going to walk through, and then, you know, never look back. Jonathan mcdowell, what are your thoughts as you watch this . Well, you know, it looks absolutely flawless. It opens up i think they became the about 584th or 5th people in space. Were going to see i think a huge increase in that total of the number of Human Beings flying in space in the coming years thanks to these tourist flights. So i think thats the real, real impact here. And its extraordinary, jonathan, when you think this capsule can be reused and the Booster Rocket as well. Thats right. So, this was the third flight of this very same stack, and that actually, you know, people, when they started reusing rockets, i dont want to go on a reused rocket, but actually i think it really does give you confidence that youve worked the bugs out of this vehicle and you can use it again and again. So i think Elon Musk with spacex pioneered that with the orbital rockets. Theyre doing it here with Blue Origin. Virgin Galactics Vehicle is reusable. That aspect of Space Travel is a huge change compared to the throw away rockets of the 60s and 70s. And for future Space Travel and exploration, miles, reusable rockets are essential. Absolutely, anderson. You know, we tried to do this with the space shuttle, but we came up way short on the idea of reusability. They threw away the external fuel tank. It was very difficult to restack the solid rocket boosters. And the orbiter itself was incredibly fragile, covered with the tiles that proved to be kind of an achilles heel. When you look at what you just saw there, what it really impresses me is everything that you saw there is scaleable to orbit and beyond. The architecture of their system is kind of over engineered for what you saw today. Hey, miles, i want to bring in the colonel. Colonel, what are we looking at here . Why havent they just brought them out immediately . What are they doing . Well, obviously the capsule is pressurized to some degree inside, and it has, you know, the tanks of pressurized air and other things inside that were keeping the crew cool and comfortable. Those all now have to be saved and equalized. Otherwise you have partially expended Scuba Tanks underneath. They need to equalize pressure. They have to work through all of their steps. But what miles said is correct. This isnt just this flight today, but the techniques that theyre developing, the procedures, the sequence. Thats all Sort Of, you know, this is first step. Thats building the legacy so that they can do this over and over again with paying passengers, but also scale it up on bigger rockets to be able to get into orbit and beyond. So you want to be procedural. You dont want to just make this a one off. Thats what everybody is being careful about there now. Yeah, lets just watch this and listen. Christian, its going to be fascinating to hear from not only Jabds Eff Bezos and his br, but also Wally Funk, somebody who has been waiting for this experience. Its something she wanted to do since she started training to become an astronaut back in the 1960s. Back then women were not allowed to fly in space. But Jeff Bezos saying it would be his honor if she would be his guest for this first Human Flight of the new shepherd spacecraft. And what an incredible day for Blue Origin, but also for Jeff Bezos. And you know, there has been a lot of criticism about these billionaires who are trying to spend all their money to go on these Joy Rides into space. And Jeff Bezos has said he gets that criticism. He understands it. That they should spend their wealth and their fortunes on things here on earth. But its okay to do this, too. And this is really the epitome of the american spirit. Jeff bezos walking out, achieving this lifelong dream. Lets listen in. Woohoo oliver congratulations, congratulations. Oh, my god. Congratulations. You have to get up there, sweetheart. Oh, my god, it was so good oh, thank you congratulations. We made it. Guys, you did it woo right over there, all right. Congratulations, mark. Congratulations. Great ride. [ applause ] are you ready . [ cheers and applause ] now i know whats wrong with this hat. Woo wally congratulations. You waited so long. Yeah, you did it. The oldest person in space, you. Thats so whack. Thats so whack. Thank you. Jeff bezos, his Brother Mark, Wally Funk, and Oliver Damon being greeted by friends and family, some of the folks who have worked here at Blue Origin who have made all of this happen. This is something, kristen, that Jeff Bezos began in 2000 is when he founded Blue Origin. He had said that he thinks hes now stepped down as c. E. O. Of amazon. He remains the chairman, but he said that the work at Blue Origin and the future of this work is the most important thing he believes he will do in his life. Because he believes this is about more than space tourism. As weve been talking about, its about ultimately doing something great for all mankind, for future generations, preserving and saving resources on our planet by moving them to space and colonizing space. You know what is so remarkable is just until a few years ago, only a select few governments could do this. U. S. , china, russia. Now you have spacex, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, and the number is just continuing to grow. I mean, what Blue Origin has been able to do and all of those other private space companies is truly astounding. I mean, people did not think that it was possible for private companies to do this just a few years ago, and now look what theyve done. And, rachel, Jeff Bezos has been liquidating A Billion dollars of Amazon Stock to fund Blue Origin. The question now is, now that hes stepped down from, you know, Day Totoday Role of ama, is he going to turn his focus to Blue Origin . Thats the question, anderson. As he said, this is the most important work he believes he will ever do in his life. This is where one would think he would focus his energy and attention. I want to point out the celebration we are seeing as they are stepping out of the capsule. This is the beginning of celebrations im sure will happen throughout the day and into the coming weeks, anderson. It was incredible to hear their voices while they were on this 11minute journey. We heard them when they were in weightlessness. We heard Wally Funk say, its dark up here. Just to hear her wonder of course, its dark up there. The small things, realizing the darkness of space, the vastness of space, the vacuum of space looking down on our earth. Its borderless. Its obvious there are no borders on our planet. But seeing that from above, the kind of impact that has on those people, i mean, thats what were all waiting to hear about in the Press Conference. There were cameras aboard as well. We anticipate well see those, probably there is going to be a Press Conference at 11 30 eastern time, 10 30 local time here with Jeff Bezos and the others, so well obviously bring that to you as well. Colonel Chris Hatfield, how, how important is this . Because obviously, look, a lot of people will be looking at this skeptically, look, this is billionaires playing with toys, and this is stuff that doesnt have any impact on, you know, a familys life right now. Hardly anyone can afford a flight like this. What is the importance of this . There will always be cynical criticism, no matter whatever happens in history. And obviously when youre trying to do something that is really hard for the very first time, it takes a lot of resources. I mean, Blue Origin has 3,500 employees all Earning Salary every single day just to try and make this thing possible. But now that the and it used to be it took entire governments to finance this type of thing. Now there are private companies that are capable of doing this. That reflects an increase in safety and, therefore, a decrease in cost. So thats not about to suddenly end. As you were saying earlier, its a lot like the first airlines 120 years ago. They didnt have it right. It was only for the wealthy. Look where we are now. Thats kind of the verge theres still a lot of things to solve, but i just wanted to say one other thing. You know, i lived in the u. S. For 26 years. Theres no other place in the world that has the combination of, you know, Opportunity And Capability that allows Virgin Galactic and blue Origin And Spacex to do these things privately. People should take a tremendous amount of pride in that, that this can happen now in history in this place, and its the start of something. So it took 20 years for jeff and company to do this today, but that 20 years is just laying the foundation for whats coming next. And, Jonathan Mcdowell, it is extraordinary to chriss point, all of this seems to suddenly be bearing fruit at the same time. I mean obviously there is a competition to be the first one to get customers up into space. But all this progress, it just seems extraordinary over the last few years what we have seen with spacex, Blue Origin, and, you know, Virgin Galactic. Thats right. Its been a long time coming, right. Theyve been working on this for over a decade. I think what this moment in history is telling you is that advance in technology, a lot of which is due to software, i think. Nowadays, when rockets go wrong, its rarely the plumbing. Its rarely just it blows up. Its usually issues with software and things like that. So i think its a new maturity, modern technology for a long time people were flying these old cold War Derived Missiles as their rockets. And weve really moved into a new phase in space exploration. I want to say, though, that a lot of the history of, of space has been done by industry in the past, just with Government Funding. And thats still going to be the case. Blue origin is going to need Government Funding to do its orbital rocket for new glen, get customers, or at least commercial communications companies launching satellites and so on. So i think were going to see a mix of this private money, and then Government Money on the frontier. Jonathan, i recently heard about a company called relativity, which is started by this young guy who is building rockets with giant Metal 3d printers which just seems, you know, kind of extraordinary when you think about it. But that kind of innovation is what an event like this can spark. I mean, that kind of, you know, the Money Put into Blue Origin, it pays salaries to then people who come up with ideas of their own and go off and try to create even new, you know, unheard of ideas. Right. And what you dont hear as much about are all of these smaller startups, Rocket Lab in New Zealand has been launching small satellites, relativity you say with the 3d printed rockets. And astra launching from alaska. Its had a couple of failures so far, but theyre going to get there eventually. There is this whole Eco System of startup companies with more like Silicon Valley Investment than rich billionaires. Theyre coming along this next wave and were going to see so many new players on the Space Stage in the years to come. Miles obrien, if you are talking about, which is what bezos and Elon Musk and all these, you know, people are talking about is i mean, creating really an environment for millions of people. Bezos talks about a trillion people being able to live in space at some point. Yeah, it sounds like Science Fiction, but its not a bad idea to be thinking that way. You could make the argument, anderson, that we as Human Beings Sort Of have an obligation to think this way because ultimately the Human Race will cease to exist. So pushing out beyond our planet is in many senses an obligation. I know thats how bezos and musk think about this, the idea of colonizing mars. And ultimately creating a species that could move even beyond the solar system. As crazy as that sounds now, if we dont take these steps today, were never going to get to that point. And whats happening, what youre seeing here, whats fascinating to me, anderson, is, you know, think about how the internet began. It was the pentagon, arpanet. Over time, the government, that whole idea, the Government Control of that eased away and look at what the internet is today. We couldnt have predicted that. Its been a little different journey with space, but basically thats what weve seen the weve seen a lot of Government Investment initially, initially in the context of the cold war, beat the soviets. But over time, what has happened is nasa has pulled out of some of these markets to allow, you know, some risk takers, and that is uniquely american to have that capability to take that kind of risk to get in the game. And now what youre seeing is kind of this hybrid of government and private Sector Investment which, who knows where that leads to. Who could have predicted the internet as we know it and for that Matter Amazon and overnight delivery. Who knows where this will lead. It is fascinating to watch. I appreciate All Of You being with us. I want to go to jim and poppy. As i said, there is going to be a Press Conference shortly. Im going to go to that location now. Jim and poppy, take it away. Thank you, anderson. Just remarkable coverage, remarkable for everyone to see live. Were so happy to continue the coverage now until anderson with get back with a lot more. But, jim, watching it, what did you think . Listen, we get to cover a lot of things on this broadcast. Our colleagues and i, some of it sadly is sad news, and some of it is exciting news that i think you just take moments, right, as im sure many people watching now did, take back and soak it in. These were 11 minutes to soak in, right. Not just as an american, but as a as an inhabitant of planet earth, watching this unfold before our eyes. So, lets watch it again. You know, poppy, watching that rocket as it rose from the earth yeah. It almost looked artificial, right. I know. That video. And its not. It alameda looked borrowed from a Science Fiction movie, right . But it was real before our eyes. And the debate will go on now for a long time, jim, about the important question of, you know, where this gets humanity and what this does for humanity. But, you know, Jeff Bezos has called this the most important work that im doing, right, after founding amazon, this is more important. I think the question that was so aptly put by Colonel Chris Hatfield who we have here with us now, colonel, you said, you know, the moment that they landed, you said now they get to choose what they do with this for humanity. Talk about that. Well, there is a broader spectrum of age on this flight than weve ever had before in space flight. Wally is five years older than John Glen was. He used to have the record. And oliver is 7 years younger thats the cosmonaut that flew at 25. There is a huge wealth of perspective here, Experience And Life opportunity, and of course there is jeff and his brother. Each of those people now needs to think about what just happened. Like, they need to replay it in their mind over and over again, not just the champagne and opening the hatch, but the actual uniqueness of the human experience. And interplay that with whats coming with our technology. Where is this going to take us . And then they need to try and share that with as many people as possible. They are rare amongst humans on earth right now. And if they just keep it to themselves, i think they will have squandered the entire experience. Were not sending robots. Were not sending, you know, iphones up there. These are Human Beings and their interpretation of this, their insights into it, and then how that can be applied to future Decision Makers to inspiring young people today, that is the real quest right now. That was real it the whole purpose of this flight. You know, astronauts of the past had often made the point, seeing the blue marble from space makes borders disappear, right, conflict between countries and man disappear, right. And you see us as one Human Race, right, from afar. To this point, miles obrien, space has been the sole province of nations, right. It granted folks went to space decades ago, but these are now private companies, two in the last nine days going to space. The Phrase Youve heard many times, space is hard. Its hard for nations. Now private companies are conquering it. Tell us the significance of that going forward. Well, it just its like if you and i were having this conversation in 1927, jim, right after lindberg flew to paris and you said to me, surely there will be an air bus a380, i dont think we could have had that discussion, right. So where does this lead . We dont know. And thats the beauty of this. Thats the adventure that we can all be a part of, you know. Chris is one of the lucky 560 or so Human Beings, add four more today, who can say theyve been to space. Id like to see 500 of them going every week or every day. Why not . Why cant we do that . And why cant we make this human realm. Are you in . Ive been bothering poppy with that dream for a while now. Im in, yeah. Ill be staying right here at the anchor desk. Jim will go for both of us. Miles, im just really interested what this was like for you personally. I loved reading your Washington Post piece. I didnt know that about you when we were its fantastic. In late 90s, early 2000ss when i was trying to secure a seat on the Shuttle But Virtue of the fact that i worked for cnn, which got me access to that idea with nasa and got traction, sadly that went away with the loss of columbia, that is a whole other story. But at that time, it was profoundly it was a sad thing on many levels but it was disappointing to me because there was no alternative at the time. And within two years, i was out in mohave, california, watching this Spaceship One coming out of the scale composites successfully win that sorry X Prize and suddenly i realized oh, there is another way to do this and it has taken a lot longer than we expected. At that time branson was predicting to do this in 2008 and here we are 17 years later and it came to fruition and it is amazing. And im going to say, youre a young man so you have plenty of time, miles. Jonathan mcdowell, there are branson and bezos and of course Elon Musk. And Elon Musk ahead of the game because his company has carried pay loads for governments that carried astronauts to the Space Station. For folks watching at home, though, when is a realistic Time Line for a trip to space in sub orbital flight as this is to be something that is not purely the realm of billionaires. Well, unfortunately i think it is going to be a while. I think it will be enough just to be a multimillionaire in ten years from now. But before you and i can afford in our Pocket Money to take one of these flights, it will come. It will come. But its going to be decades, i think. And were going to see i think the Real Change will be when they could bring down the price of orbital tourist flight. A lot of people have forgotten that there have been tourists on the international Space Station and even to jims point, a japanese journalist flew on mirror, i believe. So this is been building a long time. It will come. But im afraid we have to be patient about the price coming down because this is a sporty thing to achieve. Yeah. Colonel, lets Talk About Wally Funk for a moment. 82yearold woman, pilot and now an astronaut. I believe that i heard, when we heard the audio when they landed, i believe it was her voice thanking Jeff Bezos saying i would never have gotten this far without you and without this. And then is he said to her, oldest person in space, that is you. This coming from someone who has talked about for years how she was told that she couldnt achieve everything she wanted to because she was a girl. Shes quoted as saying that never got in any way. And now she did it as a woman at an 82yearold and i wonder your thoughts. I thought the greatest thing i overheard after they opened the hatch was shes such a boy about and expressive person and she said to whoever shes talking to, you have got to get up there. That feeling is to honest and straightforward. Initially of course it was just military test Pilots Ab they were all men. You need to remember the most experienced astronaut in american history is a woman. It is peggy whitson. Hes commanded the Space Station twice and done ten space walks and been in space 656 days and so women are superb astronauts and lead across nasa. So that bridge has been crossed. But for wally personally, who was dreaming of it since she was young to now have been able to have this experience, i think it kind of encapsulated the whole new Space Era that this could happen for someone with legacy as well as 18yearold On Board. But this is a big step forward. And notably, 52 years to the day after that other big step for man kind, neal Armstrong Landing on the moon. And notable that this launch took place on July 20th as that great moment for the nation and for the world took place. 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And for everyone watching, good morning, everyone, it is the top of the hour. Im Poppy Harlow. Youre watching History Unfolding in front of our eye this is morning on 52nd anniversary of the u. S. Moon landing, another milestone. Jeff bezos