Man blasting off successfully and safely to tHe edge of space aboard tHe New SHepard, a Suborbital Rocket built by his Space Company blue origin. THe launch and safe return of tHe New SHepard, tHere you see it landing tHere in tHe desert in texas. New SHepard Name for alan sHepard, tHe first american in space. A pivotal moment for tHe space industry, potentially. Paving tHe way for commercial space tourism, at least, perhaps exploration beyond that. Next hour we do expect to Hear from bezos and tHe three astronauts that were on board of tHe capsule tHere. You Heard tHe shouts of joy as He experienced weightlessness and tHe moment wHen tHey landed as well. You see tHere. That included mark bezos, Jeff Bezoss BrotHer and 82yearold Wally Funk, tHe oldest person to leave funk and a lucky 18yearold Oliver damon. Two records broken tHere. Kristin fisHer is at Launch Site one in van horn, texas. And kristen, we are going to Hear from Jeff Bezos and tHe crew soon. Excitement as tHey landed, ex
Space Rocket Science there that makes a lot of us optimistic about the possibility that more and more humans will get an opportunity to go to space. And that opens up all kinds of things that you could possibly not imagine right now. Yeah. It was interesting, miles, i spoke to Jeff Bezos just a couple of minutes ago when his brother and well have that tape shortly for you. But one of the things that we said is that it is better than he expected. He read a lot about what to expect, what it was going to be like. But it surpassed his expectations. He talk the a lot, too, about his vision for the future of Space Exploration and space colonization. I want to bring in mitchia kaku, a theoretical physicist. How likely is that vision of having a permanent settlement on moon or on mars, having the kind of Space Exploration, the kind of Human Presence in space that bezos and Elon Musk are talking about . Well the key factor that has not been mentioned yet, cost. The cost has been dropping like a
origin will blast off for its second manned flight. it comes just months after it launched bezos himself into space as part of its inaugural crew in july. today, science fiction is actually going to become reality when captain kirk himself, actor william shatner will become the oldest person to fly to space at the age of 90. that tops legendary astronaut wally funk who flew on blue origin s first mission at age 82. let s talk about what s about to happen in the next couple of hours. the crew of four will board the shepherd rocket for their 11-minute flight, and that s when they launch. after liftoff, the rocket will stay intact until about 45 miles high, and that s when the cab separates from the booster. it s eventually going to hit zero gravity, and that s when the crew will be able to get out of their seats, float around and have that monumental moment looking back at earth. they re going to hit peak at about four minutes, just beyond the border of outer space. then it s t
We take for granted all the materials. all of those things exist, and there is a robust program in space exploration about how do we ensure that the benefits the things that we learned, that space technologies come to us here on earth. and so i think we have to separate out this particular tourist ride from what space exploration has done and still has the potential to do even more. what an important distinction, as we see the astronauts climbing up those stairs, heading up to the capsule. tom costello, talk to me about the actual rocket that they re going to be sitting on top of. yeah, the new shepard rocket, named after alan shepard, the first american to go into space. that rocket is 60 feet tall. it has about 110,000 pounds of thrust. it s going to be it s a liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen rocket. what does that mean?
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