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
New level. You like that . I do. I didnt know if you were going to say it. I really like it. Listen, a short time ago bezoss Space Travel Company Blue Origin released video from inside the capsule of this fully autonomous rocket ship. You could see bezos, his brother, 82yearold wally Funk And 18yearold oliver daemen, having a flip around here. A little tight. They seem to be having a grand old time. It looks like it is fun. Oh. Space. Unbelievable. Oh is It Everything you thought it would be . Fantastic. Here, look. Oliver. Oh, thats great i couldnt tell if they were hugging Each Other or just running into Each Other. In a fete of engineering the Rockets Booster is recyclable. It landed back at its designated spot so it can be reused, which is a major advance that could keep costs down for future Space Travelers. We can see it right there, that pinpoint landing. I mean, anderson thats incredible. A thing of beauty for Blue Origin. I mean look at that thing. Nailed that landing. So bezo
I was actually a gymnast the first 12 years of my life. at the time of his passing, he left each of us kids a letter, just so we have something to read as we grow up. and his to mine said basically i can t wait to see you in the olympics. i can t wait to watch and so that is still something i just really hold dear to me. we ll be cheering for maddie at the olympic games. the opening ceremony the friday. the action is starting tonight. the u.s. women s soccer time trying to follow up a world cup win with an olympic gold medal. no women s team has done it. they re looking to change that in tokyo. it would be an incredible achievement. it would be historical to be the first team to do it. it would be really difficult. but i think this team is more than capable of being able to do that just given the fact that we ve had this break to regroup, reset and refocus. we want to make history and
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