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>> i can say its about making sure we have the capacity for travel within the next 100 dwreerz years. thats building capability that we can use here on earth. its not about the launch. its about using space as a radical plat tomorrow to really push us. the dream of space exploration is not new. its something that has been part of humanity since we were here. we looked up at the stars and wondered what they were. we have it all want odd to go, but there was part of who we are. and so i think its ...

Launch, incredible engineering, its built on the foundation of knowledge, capacity, that started and was manifested with government money and regular citizens money. so a little bit different than airplane flight and other things, because we have already done that. we know how to do those. and what the commercial folks have done is to really do some refinement on the engineering. its really important to me that we understand that this is part of all of us. when we started putting together with t...

Grandfather could have seen this? >> hell yes. we talked about that. >> reporter: is he the one person you thought of up there? your family has a history of space exploration, space work. >> i definitely thought about pop. >> we said that in the capsule. wed love to have him. >> he would have been the one like most excited by this and most proud of this and yeah, we miss him >> reporter: thank you both so much. congratulations. lets take it back. i know we have to leave. i know, i know. >> jeff ...

And spais ex orbital flight and im looking for a commercial crew mission because it is all of the progression that is marking how we are commercializing space, not just for people to come and visit, but to use space as a tool to develop new medicines, to develop new technologies. its going to be very ex-sighing and im looking forward to the future. >> we should note, peggy, richard branson has just gotten online to congratulate jeff bezos on the successful launch, the successful landing of this ...

Fathers, when you were up there, i talked to you yesterday, im cool. im fine. were you panicked? >> no, i was never panicked. i got emotional sitting waiting for the launch and just thinking about my kids and my wife and everything. it was a profound moment and the training that we went through was fantastic for anything that might be off nominal but it was a perfect flight, and boy, what an adventure. it was unbelievable. >> some of our family members were a little anxious, but they flipped bet...