Its Highstakes Journey Back To Earth. Final goahead. So if all goes well, well see it land back on solid ground in New Mexico within the very hour. Ill be your pilot for live coverage here. Cnn has it all happens before us. Now remember, the capsule is coming back empty, uncrewed and nasa speak. And yes, remembering it correctly, this is the same capsule that wasnt supposed to be uncrewed. It was supposed to have two astronauts coming back home in it, Sonny Williams and butch wilmore. And they are staying put on the international Space Station, as you know, in fact, therell be there until february. Nasa made the decision to keep him there for their safety after lingering issues popped up with the capsule, nasa simply couldnt risk a disaster remember, the astronauts got to space on Starliner Back in june and was supposed to be quick, eight days or so. But now its going to be more like eight months in space. Return, though, is still a high Pressure Moment for both nasa and boeing with fr
miles above earth. you ll remember, richard branson and virgin galactic, they went 50 miles above earth, that is blue origin s one-upmanship here. and that is when they re going to feel three minutes of weightlessness. they can unstrap from their seats, you see floating here right now. they re going to be able to explore. look at these huge windows. they re about 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 feet wide. they re really big. they re the biggest windows to fly into space. this is the three minutes of fun here, and it s a quick three minutes. then that crew capsule will start falling back to earth. gravity will take hold. and that is when we ll see three parachutes deploy to help guide that crew capsule back into the texas desert. there s going to be a recovery crew nearby. and jose and steph, we ll have to wait 22 minutes until that hatch opens and we can ask everybody how it was. garrett, first, i want to
i m regretting we don t have any champagne. that feels unfair after this show. there s some waves from our astronauts there. there in the foreground you see the capsule. the ride to space, the new shepherd booster. it s flown to space and back four times, and coming to them get them is the recovery crew.
our very own audrey and chris. our recovery crew is about to open the hatch. there is our founder jeff bezos giving the big thumb s up. [laughing]. very happy. whoo! [laughing]. audrey. here come your family and friends. [cheering].