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In a couple space capsules. this is roomier. to your point, there's only four people flying on this. yes, if they had a full crew of six which they plan to do in the near future, it might be a little tighter. i don't know if wally would be able to do those summersalts quite easily. jeff bezos telling me he's excited to learn how this journey is going to impact him. only around 500 people have ever had a luxury of traveling to space. and all of them speak of the overview effect, and that's part of the why to the suborbital missions for blue origin and companies like virgin galactic. democratize...

But i wonder, franklin cheng diaz, when you came back and you have the advantage of seven visions of earth from up there and i imagine multiple orbits. when you came back, did it change your view of things down here? did it give you hope for ways forward? >> it does very much. you are a different person when you come back. and that is that you see the overview effect. many astronauts talk about the smallness of our planet, the fact that we all occupy the same place. and in my case, i was fortunate to have flown over 25 years, i was able to actually see with my own eyes the changes on the earth...

The deforestation of the amazon basin and the contamination of the oceans and the pollution in the air. all of those things, i was able to witness. and it does change you. >> wow, as you said, the overview effect, it is so great to watch this even over and over again. thank you so much, dr. jameson, to you and to you, franklin cheng diaz. your experience and your perspective is invaluable on a day like this. >> thank you. >> we will continue to have a lot more cover of what we just witnessed this morning. but we do have other news still ahead including an urgent warning from the cdc director t...

Now we've launched another craft from another vehicle putting people into space, and i think that over the years to come, there will be thousands of people who we will put into space and will become astronauts and hopefully will come back and realize what a special world we live in. >> the overview effect and the impact it has on you. for people who don't know, sirisha, you wanted to be an astronaut. you didn't have perfect eyesight, so you couldn't become a nasa astronaut. in high school -- that's how young you are -- you watched what richard was building and said that's how i'm going to get ...

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity and its mothership (left) are modeled after the SpaceShipOne launch system (right) that was built with Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’s backing. (Photos by Virgin Galactic and Michael Pereckas) The suborbital spaceships built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceline may look totally different, but financially speaking, they have something in common: They both have connections to Seattle tech billionaires. The connection is obvious in the case of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship. Bezos founded Blue Origi...