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Going on these joy rides into space and taking money from these very wealthy patrons. william shatner will get a lot of people excited, someone like willy funk who so deserved a seat on there as one of those mercury 13 astronauts, so to speak, who never got to fly in space. jeff bezos, i believe, very aware of the criticism that's coming his way. he believes, along with elon musk and richard branson, that they are doing something that is ultimately going to better all of human kind. it's just these very wealthy patrons they believe have to pave the way. >> one measure of the fact that this is ...

God speed "new shepard," i can't wait to hear your stories. mark. >> you're hearing messages there from the members of the last "new shepard" note. oliver daemen who at 18 was the youngest to go up. he said now the moment is there, it will never be better than your best imagination. and wally funk, who at 82 finally achieved her dream of going into space, no longer the oldest person to achieve that. william shatner, of course, at 90. she said it's the most fantastic experience of your life. she was part of a group of female pilots. she ultimately never went. there was so much made of her journ...

>> thank you again everybody from joining us live from west texas. so far a phenomenal flight for our second human crew. so exciting, jackie, to have sent captain kirk himself, william shatner, to space. i cannot wait to hear his commentary upon return as well as our two customers, chris boshuizen from australia as well as glen devries and our very own audrey powers. they're coming back home. the booster is going to beat the capsule back home. it is more aerodynamically shaped, of course, at the base of the capsule. it's less aerodynamic. what we're going to see coming up shortly is at the top...

>> i wouldn't 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 it's partially about that. it's 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 the drawing board. if you want to take really big picture view of it, in jeff bezos' mind, this is a...

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 they're 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, that's one thing that's really hard about flying in space, on something like the space shuttle, the soyuz, is that when you get there, you immed...