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As he said, this is the most important work he believes he will ever do in his life. this is where one would think he would focus his energy and attention. i want to point out the celebration we are seeing as they are stepping out of the capsule. this is the beginning of celebrations im sure will happen throughout the day and into the coming weeks, anderson. it was incredible to hear their voices while they were on this 11-minute journey. we heard them when they were in weightlessness. we heard ...

Get into space, i mean, thats far more energy exponentially than is going to be used today. i mean 17,000 miles per hour, thats incredible. >> yeah, and it is actually exponential, anderson. thats true. so, you know, basically you have to get enough speed up so that your free fall around the planet just keeps going. thats what we call weightlessness. youre really still under the influence of gravity. you just keep falling. and so thats what were going to see in the fall. so its a very exciting b...

It felt remarkably natural to be in a moment of weightlessness. your take away from that in what you saw in this flight. >> congratulations to all of them. i think it is a significant milestone. it is funny, zero g is not really natural. you start to get space adaptation syndrome. for me, one of the coolest things, land first stage on earth to reuse it again. i am jealous. they went to the place i would love to go back and at least the bezos brothers and i have the same hair. >> good point. were...

The view. riding will be their only job. >> its an autonomous vehicle. its been designed so that the customers, the astronauts themselves, can experience the flight. >> reporter: over the first two minutes their speed will literally rocket to more than 2,000 miles an hour. g forces will intensify until each person feels as if they weigh three times as much as normal. but that wont last. at 2:45, the booster engine will fall away. 15 seconds later as the capsule arcs toward the highest point in t...

It. absolutely absorb, become hyper aware. focus on whats going on around you. the difference of weightlessness and the amazing view out the window. you have to be a sponge, a human sponge, absorbing the magical experience. >> miles obrien, we are two minutes from launch. >> its quite a moment. i love chris hatfield and the gorilla analogy. thats good stuff. thats darn near poetry. you know, this -- this is an important moment. its a milestone moment and, you know, anderson, when you think about...

>> any other impressions now seeing the video of it? is it one of those things where you just took it in and its hard to compare the video, what are the sensations that having come from seeing that right now. >> way cooler than it looked. >> so, after of course there are four minutes of weightlessness, the fun you have, of course we got you buckled back in and you descended under those beautiful three parachutes i think we have another video here of your dissent back to our beautiful west texas ...

You have a number of symptoms and different people vary from feeling very head fall, nauseated. over time you lose bone mass and other things. those are long, extended trips. this trip, theyll look to make sure nobody had problems handling weightlessness for that period of time. and i want to build on something that clayton mentioned which is when we look at this technology and look at what is happening to crew members on board, the training is different because the mission is different. the tra...

While there is no pilot on board, it might seem disquieting at first, but it actually is safer. >> yeah, you know, at first blush, i thought i might not want to be in an autonomous vehicle. as you look at safety considerations, 75% of problems with aircraft are due to pilot, to pilot error. so it certainly seems to be safer. can you talk also, miles, just a little bit about the experience they are going to have, that three minutes of weightlessness, what theyre going to be seeing out the window?...

And ive got to say, this one was just about as thrilling as that one was, even though shepard was the very first. >> absolutely. today was an amazing day because i call it the trifecta day because now we have three bona fide company is independent of nasa that have the ability to send humans up into space, and that opens up a new era of space travel for the civilians. you know longer have to be part of nasa or close to the tough training as being a nasa astronaut to go into space. you do have to...

So, kristen, that capsule, that is where they are going to be sitting, all four of them, wally funk just went into the capsule as well. i mean, kristen, imagine 82 years old, been dreaming about this her whole life. to now have this moment come true. >> i mean, it is truly a dream come true for her. the other really special part of it, she has trained about 3,000 pilots and there you have sitting next to her is going to be 18-year-old oliver damon who he himself is training to be a pilot right n...