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Our report from the launch site in west texas tonight from nbc news correspondent tom costello. >> reporter: in remote van horn, texas, the anticipation is building. the launch pad, 45 miles out in the desert, set for jeff bezos liftoff. this morning, bezos and his three fellow passengers were giddy with excitement. >> people say they go into space, they come back changed. i cant wait to see what it will do to me. >> while blue origin has flown 15 unmanned test flights, this will be the first to...

Lunar lander for the artemis program. and spacex and blue origin have been competitors starting from the beginning starting with the well-known launch pad at cape canaveral, launch pad where the apollo 11 astronauts launched from, the launch pad, the shuttle launch, that went to spacex and elon musk and these two billionaires have been duking it out ever since. >> i wand to bring in miles. that competition that kristin is talking about, that is one of frankly the advantages of having private com...

Infrastructure he keeps talking about hes hoping to build and be part of the building of spacex is obviously doing similar things. he believes there needs to be a lot more companies for, you know, generations to come that are going to be innovating new ideas for space but without the infrastructure, the same kind of infrastructure he was able to use, the postal service, fedex, paypal to build amazon on. he wants for future generations to build an infrastructure they can use to innovate into spac...

Suborbital flight. company virgin galactic is in the suborbitalflight. it really company virgin galactic is in the suborbital flight. it really is a space race of the billionaires and this is the latest episode of it. jeff bezos, who was wearing a blue flight suit and a cowboy hat when he got into the vehicle to the launch pad returning on out to earth after a flight of a lifetime and also the fulfilment really of his dreams ever since he was a boy of going into space and there he is, firmly bac...

That it has, providing the safety for the astronauts. so really just on a technical side of things, blue origin has to be very pleased today and im sure well hear a lot about that in the press conference. >> and charles bolden, you have had four missions as commander and also pilot of space shuttles in addition to be the former nasa administrator. can you just talk a little bit about what the folks on board today experienced as they, you know, rocketed off the earth going from zero to more than ...

>> bezos will be joined by his brother and 18-year-old from the netherlands and 82-year-old female aviation pioneer, wally funk from texas. his rocket will be launched from blue origins facilities at a remote location near van horne, texas. which is about two hours southeast of el paso. the mission will eventually pave the way for private space tourism. lets go live to launch site one, and bring in cnns kristen fisher. >> reporter: good morning, john, the crew should be arriving at launch site o...

Earth. eventually going so fast theyll break the sound barrier just as they did going up. they wont likely see the booster engine land a couple of miles from the launch pad. and once they are close enough to earth about 9 minutes after taking off, parachutes will deploy to slow their descent to 15 miles an hour. then a retro thrust system will fire just before touchdown. >> really, by the time the capsule lands, its just at about 1 or 2 miles an hour. >> reporter: it wont be anything like orbita...

Good morning, im anderson cooper. we are live near van horn, texas, at blue origin site, one. five decades after neil armstrongs giant step for man. its a big step for space tourism and blue origin begun by bezos more than two decades ago. the amazon founder will be joined by his brother mark, two other passengers the oldest and youngest people to ever travel to space. last night jeff bezos delivered dinner to the press in the media center. if you were worried about this mornings flight, he cert...

People who say they go into space that they come back changed. i cant wait to see what its going to do to me. >> and we have lift off. well blue origin has flown 15 unmanned test, flights this will be the first to carry passengers. baseless will take seat number six, the simulator earnings that probe of the capsule that will carry all four, 62 miles high, for three minutes of weightlessness. and six massive windows. >> and as you are sending, essentially a feels like deer this falling away from....

For the capsule. if there was only one parachute that was released, the scissor mechanism would help absorb some of the shock and keep the crew passengers safe inside. >> once the capsule is out there, they have about three minutes of weightlessness, right? >> they do. rachel and i actually got a chance to go inside that capsule, experience the simulator and see what its like. and it is, it is much bigger than i expected. it is very sleek. and so wally funk said she is incredibly excited after a...