I love it. Look at the blackness of space. Theyre so giddy. That was on the new shepherd. The first manned flight by Jeff Bezos company, blue origin. On board was bezos, his brother, mark, plus the oldest and youngest people ever to go to space. 82yearold wally Funk And 18yearold oliver damon. Now, missing from that list, a pilot. This was an autonomous craft, rocketing to sub orbital space before detaching the capsule for a few minutes of weightlessness, and then roughly 10 minutes after launch, a return that was almost as impressive as the liftoff. As the booster comes back to the surface with that pinpoint accurate upright landing. And then just moments later, the capsule followed. The parachutes deployed and the crew arrived with a soft touchdown. Welcome back to earth. Congratulations to all of you. [ cheers ] 82yearold wally funk. Talk about a spry 82yearold. Right . After taking it in and then they towelled off after the champagne. Bezos spoke to our anderson cooper. Best day ev
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Some good stuff with the olympics. more than 11,000 athletes representing more than 200 countries are set to compete. this is a chance of a lifetime. andy scholes is joining us now with some of the inspirational stories. andy, what stands out? ana, there s so many. right? because so many of these athletes work their entire lives to get to this very moment. the olympic games. and let me introduce you to american weight lifter maddie rogers. the 25-year-old from florida is going to be competing in her very first olympic games. maddie grew up a gymnast. then was a competitive cheer leader. then a cross fitter, now a world class weight lifter. he dad passed away in 2001. when she turned 18, she was given a letter he wrote that said one day she s make it to the olympics. my dad passed of cancer when i was six.