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>> i can say it's about making sure we have the capacity for travel within the next 100 dwreerz years. that's building capability that we can use here on earth. it's not about the launch. it's about using space as a radical plat tomorrow to really push us. the dream of space exploration is not new. it's something that has been part of humanity since we were here. we looked up at the stars and wondered what they were. we have it all want odd to go, but there was part of who we are. and so i think it's something that moves forward. this is another chapter. but i also would like to add that every...

Launch, incredible engineering, it's built on the foundation of knowledge, capacity, that started and was manifested with government money and regular citizens money. so a little bit different than airplane flight and other things, because we have already done that. we know how to do those. and what the commercial folks have done is to really do some refinement on the engineering. it's really important to me that we understand that this is part of all of us. when we started putting together with the funding, everyone wants to be involved. it's something we need to share as a society and as a w...

Grandfather could have seen this? >> hell yes. we talked about that. >> reporter: is he the one person you thought of up there? your family has a history of space exploration, space work. >> i definitely thought about pop. >> we said that in the capsule. we'd love to have him. >> he would have been the one like most excited by this and most proud of this and yeah, we miss him >> reporter: thank you both so much. congratulations. let's take it back. i know we have to leave. i know, i know. >> jeff bezos, mark bezos, stephanie ruehl, scoring that out of this world exclusive, stephanie joining us...

And spais ex orbital flight and i'm looking for a commercial crew mission because it is all of the progression that is marking how we are commercializing space, not just for people to come and visit, but to use space as a tool to develop new medicines, to develop new technologies. it's going to be very ex-sighing and i'm looking forward to the future. >> we should note, peggy, richard branson has just gotten online to congratulate jeff bezos on the successful launch, the successful landing of this new shepard rocket and the capsule carrying bezos and the crew members. you'll be demanding the s...

Fathers, when you were up there, i talked to you yesterday, i'm cool. i'm fine. were you panicked? >> no, i was never panicked. i got emotional sitting waiting for the launch and just thinking about my kids and my wife and everything. it was a profound moment and the training that we went through was fantastic for anything that might be off nominal but it was a perfect flight, and boy, what an adventure. it was unbelievable. >> some of our family members were a little anxious, but they flipped between wanting to stow board in our carry luggage and wanting to stop us from going, but you know, i...