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Any concerns. she works at blue origin. she was a flight controller for nasa for a number of years. she has quite a resume. i'm curious, when you hear things like that, you see a letter like that, is that something that should give pause based on your experience? >> well, i think anytime, you know, somebody gets on a rocket there should be a little bit of pause. if they didn't, i don't think they would be human, you know? it is just such an unnatural act. so, of course, when something like that comes out, i think, you know, if i was the crew member on board, i would look into it thoroughly. an...

Remarkable. he's in remarkable shape. he is just as bright and smart and witty and funny as he was 40, 50 years ago, and he admits he said it on our air, he's nervous about this flight, and then i said, wait a minute, you battled rom yulens and klingons, and he said yes, but this is the real deal. he's going up, as you mentioned, it's just an 11-minute trip. three to four minutes of weightlessness, about 62 miles up, what is that you say? let me bring you back to the summer. remember richard branson, he was the first one to go up and float in space for three to four minutes, but the bezos team...

Four minutes of weightlessness, and all of that is what is kind of driving this. it is an ingenious way to push the blue origin line and the space tourism business. by the way, as you know, william shatner is passionate about the earth, and he talked about this in a video clip just released by blue origin. >> we're just at the beginning but how miraculous that beginning is and how extraordinary it is to be part of that beginning. there is this mystique of being in space and that much closer to the stars and being weightless. i shall be entranced by the view of space. >> reporter: yeah, shatner...

Ten minutes long from start to finish, about four minutes of weightlessness, but this crew of four people, they will indeed cross the carmen line, the historical marker, the defining line between the boundary of space and earth's atmosphere. and so they are going to cross that line, but they're in the going to go fully into orbit, which is what we saw spacex's mission do. it is incredible to think about the fact that we have had six crude launches from u.s. soil in just six months after nearly a decade of zero human space flights from u.s. soil. and so one of the other crew members on this mis...

>> "new shepard" astronaut demo whose real name is jeff bezos has this to say. you lucky bastards. [ laughter ] it was only ten weeks ago i was sitting where you are watching the countdown clock full of anticipation and excitement, eager to feel the rumble of liftoff and the majesty of weightlessness. the depth of my desire to fly again is hard to express, so allow me to quote from the classic of the great american song book "mr. space man" with lyrics by william shatner. hey, mr. space man, won't you please take me along. i won't do anything wrong. hey, mr. space man, won't you please take me...