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He, of course, is not going to be aboard this craft. i interviewed him after the last launch, and while he said he was ready to go the next day and the day after and wanted to be on many missions going forward, he wanted to let others experience it. but it sure looks like hes going to be with them until the very, very last moment. besides the four of them, it seems to be just jeff. >> sorry, garrett, real quick, there is a difference between space exploration and space tourism. this is a case of...

Gravity issue, it does take a while. but back to my very limited experience with that, as you call it, the vomit comet, which was the nasa zero gravity airplane. you know, just a little bit in zero gravity does make your stomach turn and make you feel disoriented. it will make a difference if theyre just kind of focused on just enjoying themselves, right, rather than experiments or looking at different projects that you have to do. >> yeah, you know, thats one thing thats really hard about flyin...

Relatively cursory check, but just to make sure nothing has happened unforeseen between when you last checked them, and as you heard, youll be going through additional 5g, youll go through 3g, have a lot of disorientation from microgravity. so you want to make sure everything is working normally. so its going to be a cursory check, not a deep check. >> and the four people inside have very little to do, right? theres no pre-check stuff that they have to do to make sure that the capsule and the wh...

Flights like this, you know, with a celebrity or some other person that gets some extra attention, you just show the public how the accessibility of spaceflight is becoming more broad. hopefully, eventually, the cost will come down. i dont think these flights mean were going to be jumping on a rocket like we jump on airplanes anytime soon, but it is a step in that direction. >> clayton, i want to ask you as were looking at this, one of the things im particularly fascinated by is the size of the ...

In on something. >> the whole adaptation to zero gravity and the impact. so when youre on the parabolic flight or the vomit comet, every 20 seconds, you go from microgravity to pulling about 2g. so thats a very different profile. so the nausea, the things that you feel are really more akin to motion sickness than space adaptation syndrome or adapting to zero g. so what happens with the three minutes, its probably going to be more akin to motion effects. but once you actually go into orbit, then ...

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...