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Civilians. theres much more to come as weve seen. let me begin our coverage with cnns kristin fisher. shes live at the launch site and has been covering all this in texas. we know as we saw with the last flight, theres going to be videos coming out and were going to see a lot more, but it looked flawless. >> blue origin has to be very, very happy about this mission. it looked flawless. well certainly get to hear a bit more about that. we should get some of that video later today of william shatn...

Weightlessness is less than half the time it took us to just to get into pace. it will happen so fast. the view is pretty spectacular. its unlike anything they have seen. i remember my first glimpses of the earth from space. i remember thinking, man, i have never seen anything like this before. i thought i would be ready for it and i wasnt. i was trying to fly the shuttle so i could not stare out the window. it will be quicker than they thought and a normal astronaut would be like wow that was q...

There is a big reinvestment that space activity helps right here on earth. >> harris: i want to talk about what space does to the body. when you are 90, you are prepping for this. you are not flying with the blue angels every afternoon so you know how to clinch your teeth and what zero gravity feels like. i was a child of a combat pilot. what does it do for william shatner to go 62 miles up in the air even if it was only 11 minutes? >> well, the first thing is weightlessness. as soon as that eng...

That become. smiles all around. william shatner taking in the moment, clearly. >> what you have done, if everybody in the world needs to do this. everybody in the world needs to see the -- it was unbelievable. unbelievable. i mean, you know, the little things, the weightlessness, but to see the blue color just whip by, and now youre staring at the blackness. thats the thing. the covering of blue is -- the steepest blanket, this comforter of blue that we have around us. we think well, thats blue ...

Shatner sitting inside this capsule right now. here is one who has spent so much of his life, so much of his life so closely tied to space, yet hes never actually been to space. here he is minutes away from that becoming a reality. when there was this first wind delay, he talked about how much that delay extended his feelings of excitement and shear terror. so you have to imagine those feelings are even more heightened now that hes actually sitting on top of this, essentially whats a controlled ...

>> now if anyone thought that william shatner was perhaps exaggerating just how profoundly he was impacted by his time in space, watch what he did while he was weightless. this is video that was just released by blue origin of those four precious minutes of weightlessness. and other people are kind of floating around and whatnot but you can see william shatner in just a moment, right there, just pressing his face in front of the window as he said he wanted to do. in just a minute hell turn aroun...

Before. >> yeah. its amazing. >> dana: now just be there an hour and a half before the flight. >> you think what mike went through. the rigorous process. all kidding aside, we should never take this cavalierly or lightly. going into space is not like taking a jet blue flight. there are a lot of risks to it. we are getting used to this. but the fact of the matter is its still dangerous. we have to keep that in mind. bill, to your point, what might prompt a delay. it could be winds or something in...

Weightlessness before coming back down. >> and why was this so important to william shatner? >> he took us into space with "star trek" in the 60s. and i think that the fact that he has created this new interest, i mean im sure more people watched the launch this morning than have watched the launch in probably the last decade. i mean he is an extraordinary man, he always embraced the next technology. when the phone rings for him the answer is always yes. im sure very few people have

Owned byjeff bezos. this is blue origin rocket lifting off in texas. william shatner was one of five on board — the being a former nasa engineer and three executives from different companies. and then as you can see the parachutes deployed safely — and the crew were back on earth 12 minutes later. for 3 of those minutes, theyd experienced weightlessness as they up around 100 kilometres and beyond the boundary of space. heres william shatner, speaking tojeff bezos, minutes after returning to ...

Space. jason carroll is outfront. >> about to go with very few humans have gone before. >> reporter: he was not the captain on this mission but one would never know it because for the ten minute 17 second trip to space, all eyes were on blue origins most famous passenger, william shatner. "star treks" captain, james t. kirk. >> no description. >> reporter: shatner and the crew onboard jeff bezos blue origin capsule soared to an altitude of more than 347,000 feet. making shatner who is 90 the old...