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The challenge is going to be once you're actually at altitude and you're in space, unstrap, get out of your harness, you've got three minutes to float. and then quickly jump back in and harness back in. and these are reclining seats. you know, it's not like you're getting into a comfortable seat at the dining table. it's a little more challenging. and listen, we've talked about the fact that william shatner is 90 years old and in incredible shape. you know, you would think you're talking to a 50-year-old. but he's 90. and so jumping in and out of one of those reclining seats with a five-point ...

"rocket man." you have to imagine. miles o'brien, t under six minutes to launch. describe what happens in the next less than six minutes here? >> we're going to unleash a lot of power from the liquid hide engine and oxygen. the fuel is quite volatile. when you think about what rockets do, they take the coldest thing we know of which is liquid hydrogen, run it through a bunch of turbo pumps that are hyper fast, can fill up swimming pools in the blink of an eye and then turn that in to f fire. all of that is happening in short order in a short, confined space. when you start to think about that,...

I'm as physically able as bill is right now. i'm glad he's taking a moment to catch his breath. but before bernard and i flew, we go through a quarantine. part of it is because we don't want to take disease up to a space station. but also it's a time to gather yourself and get psychologically ready for the risk you're about to take and the import of what it will mean to separate away. just before we launched, we got into a little square painted white room like that as well. it's sort of the last goodbye step to earth before you climb into the ship and go. i think that's one more important phas...

Embryos develop this space, frog embryos develop in space. there was this wide range of experimentation that i think is also part of the heart blood of space exploration, and why you use microgravity as a platform. it was both, the visual, the physiological, but the work and how we can use it back here on earth. those visions hold for me. and scott, i would kind of ask you the same question. what is it like or the things that yo keep close to you that changed you? just seeing the curvature of the earth and crossing that barrier. what are the things you keep as the most impactful? >> certainly ...