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Anything you dont want to see later. >> dana: [laughing]. >> we were in weightlessness for a while. it takes a few minutes for nausea to set in. i think they are okay. its always good to have something in your stomach. maybe a little careful. >> bill: a great answer, bike. -- mike. this was delayed by weather conditions. we had william shatner on the other day want 90 and incredible. heres a clip. >> i will look out the window, neal to, see the vastness of space and the fragility of the earth. i...

Theyve got those big beautiful windows and they know they have, relatively speaking, a safe way to do it. >> by the way, erica, im going to steal that prayer for all uses, professional and otherwise. >> fair enough. that big, beautiful window, thats what weve heard. we know william shatner is looking forward to look out that window. dr. harris, give us a sense of what was that first moment like for you when you felt weightlessness for the first time, when you were able to look out that window an...

Weightlessness during a roughly 11-minute suborbital trip in space. blue origin had 17 successful consecutive flights. it has a solid track record. but the fa sa is reviewing safe concerns brought up by current and former blue origin employees complaining about a toxic work environment where professional dissent is actively stifled. there is a lot of attention on blue origin right now, both good and bad. but sending the original captain kirk up into space, i mean, thats something even "star wars...

Thats something that is alien. in a few minutes i dont think they would have that problem. when the crew got out they were not dizzy at all. were only in weightlessness for 2 minutes? >> after my shuttle flight. i felt heavy and dizzy. i didnt want to walk. i wanted a hand rail or somebody next to me. i dont think those guys were up there long enough. it will be an interesting question to ask them. i dont think they have the affects that tom and i had after the flights. >> harris: after the firs...

Generations and generations and generations to come? >> so interesting, doctor. i remember when steph was actually interviews jeff bezos, when he came down in texas in july july, thats one of the things he said. you dont realize how vulnerable we are until were up there. i want to bring in a a professor of physics at the city university of new york. hes written extensively on space travel among other things. first, want to get your reaction from what we just heard from william shatner and really...

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...

Hollywood actor william shatner has gone where no 90 year old man has gone before and travelled into space. shatner, who played captainjames t kirk in the star trek films and tv series, travelled at warp speed — with three other individuals aboard the blue origin sub—orbital capsule, a rocket developed by amazon founderjeff bezos. the blue origin craft launch was delayed by about fifty minutes due to high winds. those aboard got to experience a short period of weightlessness as they climbed ...

Fast and then a slow and smooth landing. the fins stabilizes the booster and helps guide on the way down, and then the landing gear. not every booster has this. that landing gear deployed as they were nearing touchdown. lets talk about the flight path we witnessed. so we knew that when they were going to go up, everybody on board that crew capsule, they were going to feel gravity about three times stronger than normal. they were pinned to their seats. then we saw about three minutes and thats wh...

Begun. smiles all around. william shatner taking in the moment clearly. >> everybody in the world needs to be -- everybody in the world needs to see -- unbelievable, unbelievable. the little things of weightlessness. to see the blue color go right by and now youre staring into blackness. thats the thing. the covering of blue -- this comforter blue we have around us, oh, thats blue sky. its like you whip the sheet off of you when youre asleep and

Them hopes and dreams and the successes theyve had in life, all coming together to cross over into this moment, to do something that is still one of the rarest of human experiences, and the human stories to me are obviously the most interesting. im delighted for all four of them. >> a few statistics. theyre going to go 62 miles high, just above whats known as the carmen line to get into space. the mission is going to take about ten minutes, three minutes of weightlessness. their speed at peak wi...