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Closed it and we launched. these things happen. its not that unexpected. >> one of the many things they do to prepare for this, even the morning of, is sort of a last-minute medical check. may, help us understand the kind of message clearance one needs. william shatner, for example, is not a trained astronaut. and while hes a beloved american, hes 90 years old. >> i dont actually know what all the checks are that they do, but what you want to do is to make sure that peoples blood pressure was wi...

Full circle, 55 years ago. he was beginning his "star trek" career as the captain of the enterprise and he has said -- he said it to me on camera, now his life is coming full circle. 55 years later. hes actually going into space, and thats what makes this fun for him and fun for us to join him along the way. >> 9:10 in texas, just a few moments from now, were just over 21 minutes. still with us is our all-star panel. also, morgan chesky near the launch site, a former nasa astronauts may jenison,...

And 14 minutes away, we have that crew of four onboard, including 90-year-old william shatner, captain kirk, about to become the oldest space traveler in history. three to four minutes of weightlessness before coming back down for a soft landing. cannot wait to hear the reactions on the other side of this. jose? >> may, when morgan mentioned watching the last launch, i was there. and as one standing on the ground, watching it, smelling it, experiencing it is something that i will never forget. a...

Designed to cushion the fall. as we have heard from william shatner say, as excited as he is to go up into space, hell be just as excited if not more so to come back and have that smooth landing. guys? >> may, we are now inside the ten-minute mark. what are the final check points? >> so mission control will be running through everything they need to know to make sure the rocket is safe and the mission is safe. whether it be looking at weather, whether its making sure that the engines and all of ...

And getting the people back healthy and happy. >> what is it that these four people are going to be experiencing for those three minutes? years ago, years ago, i was onboard the spasta, nasas zero gravity airplane, where they did praables, 30 to 60 seconds of zero gravity as they went on this arch. is that what theyll be experiencing for three minutes, may? >> thats basically what youre going to see. because by the time you actually get up and come back down, you get that three minutes of zero g...

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...