you is how reusable it is. the reusable booster that lands on its own, the capsule itself, fairly precise, you are in space for a little while but there was always a debate whether they can claim to be astronauts, they say we were up there, don t care how long it was, we are astronauts. where are you on this? the question continues to hunt us. space flyer is a big term for me. i spent nine years before i got a sniff of outer space. now it is different, they are in microgravity for a few minutes and come back. the philosophy of the goal they are trying to achieve is quite different, gives them the moniker of astronaut, nobody is going to ask me what my opinion or his or once they do like you did i don t know that they will put it in concrete anytime soon but they made it to space and the way the rules are written,
probably would have been easier. but as bezos said earlier in the day, this is scaleable, that when you have bigger rockets, when you have huge payloads, when you re trying to scale this up to build that infrastructure, you need practice, and that s why they re starting this way. how much sense would it make if every time you flew in an airplane you just got rid of it right after a single flight? i mean, that s why what repays bezos and blue origin did with these reusable rockets is so critical because they make space flight more accessible, more affordable. and not just bezos now, you have elon musk doing with actual orbital rockets. i think the thing that stands out, we got to see how this booster land, how slowly it came down, 1 to 2 miles per hour, wild. the capsule itself, while it s hitting almost 5.5gs on the way down, it s landing around 1 or 2 miles an hour as well.
it work. it s a wheel with a rope attached to it. as you were speaking, now it s moving again, and it s coming out right now. we see it dangling out right now, and a lot more people are there, which may signify exactly what karl was saying, we may be about to put someone in there. the mine rescue official, and bring him down, and then maybe within an hour see our first miner come up. but family members, three family members are being brought here for the first three miners who are coming up. three people from each family are allowed to watch from inside tents near the site to keep an eye when their loved one comes out of the capsule and meet with them at a reunion center that has been constructed specifically for this purpose. but the rest of the families are being kept away. they ll come when it s their turn, when their loved one comes up in the capsule. let s talk about the capsule as we continue to stay on these pictures. karl was pointing out the hole is about 28 inches in diamet
even at this last minute they are pounding away with hammers, wrenches, really the basic tools to try to make this high tech capsule work. this is the capsule that s going to go down initially as you said with the medic to monitor 33 miners. then pull them up one at a time. it will be a slow ride up. just a few feet per second it could take a 20 minute ride overall. the capsule itself, you talked about the wheels that go in. it does look high tech, but the operation itself is fairly simple. there is a large wheel which will be cranked. that wheel will turn and pull up a steel coil. so it s this wheel and coil just like the egyptians building a pyramid way back when will pull these miners to safety. we have heard it could be a two hour delay before the start. you can see the last-minute adjustments still being made even at this late hour, shepard. shepard: what do we know about the is there anyone down there, steve, who is sick, in need of immediate medical care or who is, i don t k
make some of those walls crumble. so you could get a big enough rock that would get stuck between the wall and a capsule and that could be a problem. so they re talking about putting this casing in there. this is 28 inches. that s right. the capsule goes through there. so you make a nice casing, slides right through. now, the other thing is that capsule itself, how tiny is that thing? 21 inches. so this is 21 inches around, so that s not very big. put your hands down and it barely goes over the shoulder of an average size man. it s going to be a tight squeeze. and nine of these miners were too big when this started 65 days ago, but they ve lost a lot of weight. 30 or more pounds some of