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I didnt know if you were going to pick up on it and you did and i love you for it. >> well, leave it to you to throw it out there for somebody else to pick it up. it certainly does look -- when they say insertion, do they really mean insertion? >> yeah. >> i -- im -- im looking forward to the whole thing. ive been there. i was there last week rehearsing whatever they call it. >> training, i think is what they call it. but, you know, rehearsing works. >> training. i think of it as rehearsal. i wa...

>> has cleared the tower. on the way to space with our first human crew. >> a few minutes of weightlessness. but when he made the twilight zone appearance in october, 1963, only six americans had ever done what he is about to do next week. we spoke shortly before air time for my online show full circle. >> william shatner, i am delighted that you are getting this experience, and delighted to have you on the program. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. thank you, anderson cooper. i love to sa...

Enterprise on an intergalactic odyssey. now, he will get to go on his own odyssey. >> things ive only played as an actor, i am going to see firsthand. >> reporter: "star treks" iconic captain james kirk will soon get to go to space, for real. >> im thrilled. and -- and anxious and a little nervous. and a little frightened about this whole new adventure. >> reporter: blue origin announced on monday that actor william shatner will be on the companys next flight, alongside audrey powers, blue origi...

So theyll get about 11 minutes from launch to landing. only about three or four minutes of weightlessness. this is going to be very similar to what founder jeff bezos experienced on his flight back in july. but remember, shatner is the guy who famously said "beam me up, scotty." now instead of scotty beaming him up to space its going to be the team at blue origin. so also on board this flight. its going to be lifting off in almost a week, october 12th is the target date. also on board is an empl...

Rigors of the medical evaluations that perhaps we had to do when we were first joining nasa with the professional astronaut. if youre not going to stay out very long, tolerate more and more imperfections physically and if youre going to stay out for months at a time though, and you want to do a job in space, much more important to make sure your body is ready to accept the weightlessness and rigors of being in space. >> i understand that splashdown, we are watching now imminent. can you give us ...

Memories. >> reporter: so your space shuttle missions, most space shuttle missions were about eight days. the ones that were just floating around, that werent going to the space station itself. what are they feeling like this morning? are they still a little wobbly? its only been three days that they had weightlessness. >> even after a short flight of a few days like these folks they are going to come back and it will be surprising how dizzy they were when they got up on their feet. they felt he...

Of firsts. but what about the reentry program? i was lucky enough to talk with the astronaut, victor glover who was actually on that same dragon, space vehicle this past spring as he returned to earth. and i asked him what will the reentry be like, what will the next few hours be like? >> the spacecraft will conduct a series of burns to decrease their speed and altitude, and they will start to interface with the atmosphere and that will slow them down. they will experience an increase in "g" and...

Joining nasa as professional astronauts. youre not going to stay up very long, you can tolerate more and more imperfections physically if youre going to stay up for a month at a time and you want to do a job in space, its much more important to make sure your body is ready to accept the weightlessness and the rigorsful being in space. >> i understand we are watching the splashdown now imminent. what is the mood on the ground? what were you seeing there, kendis? >> reporter: totally. people are j...

They are going to whisk the crew of inspiration 4 back to the kennedy space center, which is where their family, all of those spacex employees are going to be waiting for this big celebration. and you know, deservedly so, because what they have done, what spacex has done over the last year and a half is really something that only governments have been able to do until very recently. china, russia, the united states and nasa. thats it. those were the only entities that were capable of putting hum...

>> great question. i can simplify it by saying its the opposite of what they experience during launch. theyll feel some of the same forces as they enter the atmosphere and the spacecraft will conduct a series of burns to decrease speed and altitude and start to interface with the atmosphere and that will slow them down. they will experience an increase in g and actually it is interesting to experience that g after experiencing weightlessness. it really stands out and they will start to slow down...