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Civilian crew. it will land in the west texas desert not far from where we are. wally funk is 82 years old and the most experience, she went through testing and training in the 19605 through testing and training in the 1960s but never went further as she was a woman. this is a monumental day for her. the other passenger on board as mark bezos, the brother of jeff bezos and mark daemen who is an 18—year—old student. there has been some criticism levelled notjust at this but also richard brans...

The battle of the billionaires in space continues asjeff bezos follows richard branson into space. the amazon founder will use his blue origin new shephard rocket to take an 11 minute journey to the karman line — the 62—mile—high boundary between earths atmosphere and outer space with three other passengers. 82—year—old wally funk will become the oldest person ever to fly to space six decades after undergoing training in the 1960s. mark bezos, jeffs brother, and a mystery person who pa...

Bigelow space which is building inflatable habitats. you have companies building entirely new kinds of propulsion systems that dont rely on rockets. so this idea of an infrastructure, you have to have that in order for -- there is a possibility children being born today who will one day work on the moon or one day be part of a space mining company getting rare earth metals that you dont want being mined from the bottom of the ocean being taken from asteroids and being brought down to earth. so t...

Seat on all of this. rachel, what does he mean? what is the next step? what happens now? >> reporter: what happens immediately is celebration and ticket sales. i was just out at the landing pad with bezos himself and his fellow passengers, and they were basking in the glory of that booster that made that, you know, incredible landing. now, that was the third time that that booster has been used after todays successful flight. but back to those ticket sales, i mean we still dont know how much the...

>> i know mark bezos pretty well. hes one of the leading minds in the world of philanthropy. he does extraordinary things you dont hear about. but to just watch these brothers, think about your true passion in life. experiencing the american dream, the ultimate american dream with your brother, yes, youre looking out the window at earth behind you, but youre looking in your brothers eyes who you have known since the day he was born. >> i thought it was interesing when you asked jeff bezos when d...

His rocket ship, new shepard. on the flight was the oldest person who has been to space — 82—year—old wally funk, and the youngest, 18—year—old oliver daemen. our correspondent sophie long reports from texas. preparing to board his 60 foot sub—orbital rocket. he was not nervous, he said. just excited. this was notjust about realising a lifelong dream, but expanding his ever—growing empire beyond the grip of gravty. with him on this first fully autonomous passenger flight three othe...

Has nothing to do with me. >> yes. >> reporter: what did you experience that matters to all americans? >> well, listen. we have to build a road to space so that our kids and their kids can build a future. we live on this beautiful planet. we saw this. you cant imagine how thin the atmosphere is when you see it from space. it looks so big, feels like this atmosphere is huge and we can disregard it and treat it poorly. you get up there and see how tiny it is and fragile it is, we need to take all ...

On the flight with him was the oldest person who has been to space, 82—year—old wally funk, and the youngest, 18—year—old oliver daemen. our correspondent sophie long reports from texas. preparing to board his 60 foot sub—orbital rocket. this was notjust about realising a lifelong dream, but expanding his ever—growing empire beyond the grip of gravty. with him on this first fully autonomous passenger flight his brother mark bezos, 82—year—old trail blazing aviator wally funk and ...

Travel. theres an enormous amount of criticism, should he have spent this much money. a lot of people criticized him, shouldnt the money be going to charity and solve problems we face, climate problems, gun safety problems. many said you can do those things at once and should. yes. we have billionaires excited by space travel and in the space race. would it be great to see them have the same will and have a race to solve climate change? it absolutely will. on this day we are reminded you can and...

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 ...