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As one expert put it, the dawning of the public space age. what you re watching if you re 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. jeff s brother mark bezos along with pilot wally funk will be the oldest person in space at 82 years young, and 18-year-old 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 we ve 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. let s 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 ....
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 we ll 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 doesn t have any impact on, you know, a family s 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 you re 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 ....
That s so whack. that s 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 he s 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 we ve been talking about, it s about ultimately doing something great for all mankind, for future generations, preserving and saving resources on our planet by moving them to ....
Wealthiest man on planet earth, jeff bezos, his brother mark, 82-year-old 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 18-year-old oliver damon, talk about a graduation gift. it doesn t get much better than this for an aspiring pilot and astronaut. you know, one thing to notice as, you know, we re 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 you re right by the water. we re in the middle of a desert with this backdrop of the mountains. it s 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 ....
Who has been waiting for this experience. it s 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 it s okay to do this, too. and this is really the epitome of the american spirit. jeff bezos walking out, achieving this lifelong dream. let s listen in. ....