thank you. so then i have a couple of things to show. can we start you want the talk about the couple of things we flew? so we had the opportunity to bring with us actually on loan from the explorer s club we were able to fly with a piece of canvas from the wright flyer. so the plane the wright brothers flew we brought a piece of that canvas with us that was powerful as well as a bronze medallion made from the first hot air balloon flight in 1783. the first time man ever left the earth in controlled flight. we were very thrilled to be able to bring both of those along with us. we brought those precious objects back and the explorer s club will be pleased the hear that. one more thing that i would like to show you. who has the goggles, please bring them up to me. would you hold them for me?
tested positive for the virus and also exposed the vice president. senator cruz, this is your home state of texas. you have seen what i know with my relatives in texas we don t cut and run. that s what i ve heard some republicans accuse them of. what s the next phase they are in now? listen, karma is a remarkable thing and this episode really embodies all that s wrong with the modern democratic party. number one, they are willing to mandate rules for all americans that they ignore that they flaunt themselves. so you have democrats eager to see mask mandates on everybody who have been champions of lockdowns and of course when they get on their flight they all take off their masks and end up getting covid. but secondly, this is a political stunt. we see the texas house democrats holding themselves up as the heroic civil rights warriors. they have likeened it to the edmund pettis bridge.
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pretty incredible. you can hear the excitement in their voices. i want to bring in someone who has been listening this morning. she s the senior science reporter for the verge. thank you for being on with us fpz. good morning, thank you for having me. you re a former houston kid. puff been covering exploration for years. welcome to our special coverage. i want to guf you an opportunity to talk about your personal reaction to what we have seen unfold this morning. i was actually i just tweeted this out. i have been following this company for so long. i wrote about their first time landing the new shepard when no one was on board. it s surreal to finally see people on this flight after following test lauj after test launch. they finally made it happen.
look, i already let the guy take me to space. what more do i need to do if this man. reporter: craig, yes, it s obviously an exceptional day for the brothers, for the bezos family, but it s a great day for america. not to say that americaen doesn t currently have all sorts of problems that we have to deal with, but you can do multiple things and space exploration and science and research around it is really important. it was a big win for america today. steph how do you see jeff bezos splitting his time? he created, as you noted earlier, he created this empire with amazon. he told you pretty directly he s going to split his time between space travel and his climate change foundation. do you see one taking precedence over the other, especially, and we have noted it here and you made some points on this, especially at a moment of criticism for bezos for taking this flight from some corners