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T. kirk, william shatner became the oldest person to ever go to space, weightless for nearly four minutes with his three fellow passengers, who each paid an estimated $250,000 to fly. >> this is nuts. >> no description. >> reporter: it was a quick trip. soon the booster rocket was landing back on the pad while the team parachuted to a soft landing. >> and capsule touchdown. >> reporter: one of the world east richest men opening the hatch. jeff bezos grew up a star track/captain kirk fan and invited him to fly, but for shatner, this was more than a ten-minute joyride. >> what you have given me ...

To take off like a booster rocket, let me tell you that, folks! >> we are facing a lot of headwinds from washington. as you know, the president is unpopular today, unfortunately, here in virginia, so we have got to plow through. >> what changed? >> listen, you know i'm a very straight shooter, i'm very authentic. i call them as i see them and i think that's why people like working with me. i'm very straight. we got frustration with washington. why haven't we passed this infrastructure bill? it passed the u.s. senate with 69 votes two months ago. i have been very straight in washington. we're t...

As governor? this state is going to take off like a booster rocket, let me tell you that, folks! >> we are facing a lot of headwinds from washington. as you know, the president is unpopular today, unfortunately, here in virginia, so we have got to plow through. >> what changed? >> listen, you know i'm a very straight shooter, i'm very authentic. i call them as i see them and i think that's why people like working with me. i'm very straight. we've got frustration with washington. why haven't we passed this infrastructure bill? it passed the u.s. senate with 69 votes two months ago. i have been ...

Difficult that is, they first did this a decade ago, and no one has done it. since they are still the only company that does. i think we are actually watching it now >> you, -- we take space x is propriety feet here, i'm i looking down the barrel of that booster rocket -- which is no longer in view? >> i think it may have just touchdown, we'll get confirmation on that but i think that if the rockets one off it may be down. we will get confirmation on, that we're watching this together. the one of the right you're seeing, now that is definitely that second booster. rocket and again they can fir...

They can reuse them. that thing is coming back and is going to land on a -- you said a drone ship. what is that? >> it's an automated ship that's floating off the coast of florida somewhere in the atlantic. it is not controlled on site. the ship is controlled somewhere from, again, california, hawthorne, california is where spacex bases its operations. that was the game changer. in your intro what makes this different is that it's spacex. they can reland these rockets saving tens of millions of dollars. to give you an idea how difficult this is. they first did it a decade ago and no one has do...