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Suddenly it goes out of sight. theres that sense of panic, but you know, when you speak to anyone on the blue origin team, i spoke to mark bezos who was part of the mission over the summer in the last few days who said this is all about safety, safety, safety. audry powers is going to be part of this mission. she joined blue origin in 2013. she is in charge of this rocket, of specifically land operations. so for those who are saying, oh, my gosh, captain kirk, is she going to be safe? safety doe...

Voyage, jeff bezos brother, and he said from culture to engineering to training, safety is the absolutely number one priority for blue origin. but safety without regulation, how concerned are you? >> its not that theres no regulation. the faa has, you know, oversight of all flying things. even launched from foreign shores, if its an american company. so there definitely is faa oversight. theres not probably to the degree of commercial airliners, but commercial aviation is very mature. and so i t...

Look out the window to space, i saw something i didnt recognize, and i said to the commander, what is that? and he said, thats the sunrise. as the sun came up, i thought how breathtakingly beautiful. like someone took the most brilliant blue paint and painted it on a mirror right in front of your eyes. and i knew right then, i would never see anything as beautiful as our planet earth again. you have those kind of memories. certainly, the rocket launching, the first time on the space shuttle, whe...

This capsule has been designed is clearly so that people can see as much as possible. >> reporter: -- in the short time, if you think back to 1961, when alan shepard first went, windows were a big controversial item, because they were expensive to put in and they didnt think they were needed. so the fact that these guys are going to spend about 11 minutes in space and they get to look out these gorgeous windows, i would love to be up there to see it again, but i think all its going to do is whet...

Dream that really achieved for her, all of what she had done in her life was really something. we also heard from mark bezos, of course, brother of jeff who said you lucky bastards. clearly a little jealous this morning, jim, enjoyed his trip ten weeks ago. he wants them all to know that he thinks he should be there with them. those messages being sent, being read to this crew as they prepare and as they wait for that launch, jim. >> no question. again, that hold still in place coming up above e...

0 >> i wouldnt say all of it is aimed towards that. of course, any commercial veteran needs to turn a profit in order to stay in business. so its partially about that. its partially about helping jeff bezos realize his big picture dream of colonizing what we call sis lunar space, the area between low earth orbit and the moon. this is a small first step for jeff bezos and blue origin, showing that they can launch people successfully into space and they have other rockets and bigger ambitions on t...

The flight will take off from Launch Site One in West Texas on a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket at 08:30 ET (13:30 BST) on Wednesday.

“Risk is our business,” James T. Kirk once said. “That’s what this starship is all about. That’s why we’re aboard her.”

Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos and run by his CEO, Bob Smith (seen far left with Bezos), fired ex-executive Walt McCleery (inset) after women complained he made them feel uncomfortable.

William Shatner has a seat on New Shepard courtesy of the Amazon founder and Star Trek fan