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Vehicle will go into autonomous mode. that's because this rocket, this capsule, flies itself. there are, of course, are no professional astronauts on board. so, the whole thing is autonomous, and a few minutes before liftoff, we'll see gimel checks and the engine move a little bit just to make sure everything is ready for liftoff. at 250,000 feet, that's when the booster and the space capsule will separate. now, both will go past that karman line, the international boundary of space. the booster actually gets its astronaut wings. the booster will land. they've got that pinpoint landing, eight ...

After today, well, you can put another successful mission down in blue origin's book. this is the third human submarine -- sub-orbital flight. six new astronauts mach3 more than 60 miles per hour above the earth's surface. experienced weightlessness for three minutes and then fell back to earth pair shueded -- parachuted back down nfl player michael strahan and also daughter of astronaut alan shepard. >> he didn't get to enjoy what i enjoyed. he was all business, i went on it for the ride. >> and now, back in october, blue origin launched

It is a full flight on board this morning, on board the "new shepard" spacecraft, including news anchor michael strahan, and laura shepard, the daughter of alan shepard. the spacecraft is actually named after alan. they are riding along with four other paying customers. i'm almost trembling, i'm so excited to see this live. similar to previous flights, the mission is expected to last about ten minutes. with the crew experiencing about three minutes of weightlessness before the capsule starts to descent back to earth. we're being told t-minus one minute. six passengers on board. i guess one of ...

Manifestation. >> there's a huge difference, right, between being up in space for six months, versus being suborbital. as the astronauts begin to exit, colonel hadfield, did they lose their balance? do they need assistance? >> when you get to weightlessness, your body is a wonderful thing and immediately try tries to adapt. but since their weightlessness was so short, only three, 3 1/2 minutes, their bondy will still very much be an earth ling. even on my first two shuttle flights, a week or two, my body was still in transition. on my five-month flight, boy, it was very difficult coming back t...

US company to demonstrate concept during International Astronautical Congress in Dubai.