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Shatner sitting inside this capsule right now. here is one who has spent so much of his life, so much of his life so closely tied to space, yet he's never actually been to space. here he is minutes away from that becoming a reality. when there was this first wind delay, he talked about how much that delay extended his feelings of excitement and shear terror. so you have to imagine those feelings are even more heightened now that he's actually sitting on top of this, essentially what's a controlled explosive about to launch him and three others into space. when they get there, they're going to ...

The space program's history, in that, you know, motivates companies in those countries to be like, you know, blue origin and, you know, spacex, virgin galactic. and the more people we have investing and putting their energies into space flight, even if it's suborbital space flight, it's going to bring down the cost and increase the safety. i think it's great. >> and we're just coming up on -- >> i just wanted to add something to that whole piece about international and inspiration. there's an african proverb that says, no one shows a child the sky. it's something that people have aspired to fo...

Nasa engineers are part of the commercial efforts and a number of these companies. i think safety is at the top of mind for most of these com companies. i think of this as a graduation, we've got astronauts that go into lower earth orbit, you have the tourism effort that's happening now. we've got deep space flight. you've got to have this whole continuum where there's going to be this continuum of human beings at different aspects and levels of space exploration. that's going to really require the faa, perhaps nasa, perhaps the un that's involved, that has committees that deal with space, to ...

>> obviously, this is extraordinarily expensive for anyone. and it will be for quite some time. we are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars range. but when it gets significantly less expensive, and i'm not saying this is cheap, but scott, you've probably spent the most amount of time in space as anyone i could think of. if a flight like this cost $10,000, let's say, would you want to do it? would you jump onboard? >> at this point, i don't know, i would have to look into more detail about how risky it is and the -- you know, learn a little bit more about the hardware, but if we fly more fli...

Than the dragon or russian soyuz, but it is much more automated, which shows progress. which shows that you can put people in a vehicle, fly them into space and return them on a ballistic flight, which i'm not even sure if they have a fire extinguisher in there. there's very little controls or interface, it's pretty remarkable. >> and scary, no? >> you know, it depends. you get on public transportation that's automated, like a tram at the airport. and the more we do something, the better we get at it, the more we learn and the safety comes down. but certainly, this is not without risk. it is a...