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And 14 minutes away, we have that crew of four onboard, including 90-year-old william shatner, captain kirk, about to become the oldest space traveler in history. three to four minutes of weightlessness before coming back down for a soft landing. cannot wait to hear the reactions on the other side of this. jose? >> may, when morgan mentioned watching the last launch, i was there. and as one standing on the ground, watching it, smelling it, experiencing it is something that i will never forget. as someone who has actually been in space, when you watch this and think back to your experiences in ...

Hollywood actor william shatner has gone where no 90 year old man has gone before and travelled into space. shatner, who played captainjames t kirk in the star trek films and tv series, travelled at warp speed — with three other individuals aboard the blue origin sub—orbital capsule, a rocket developed by amazon founderjeff bezos. the blue origin craft launch was delayed by about fifty minutes due to high winds. those aboard got to experience a short period of weightlessness as they climbed to a maximum altitude, travelling above the internationally recognized boundary of space known as th...

Fast and then a slow and smooth landing. the fins stabilizes the booster and helps guide on the way down, and then the landing gear. not every booster has this. that landing gear deployed as they were nearing touchdown. let's talk about the flight path we witnessed. so we knew that when they were going to go up, everybody on board that crew capsule, they were going to feel gravity about three times stronger than normal. they were pinned to their seats. then we saw about three minutes and that's when the booster and crew capsule detached from one another. so once they did detach, they went on t...

Begun. smiles all around. william shatner taking in the moment clearly. >> everybody in the world needs to be -- everybody in the world needs to see -- unbelievable, unbelievable. the little things of weightlessness. to see the blue color go right by and now you're staring into blackness. that's the thing. the covering of blue -- this comforter blue we have around us, oh, that's blue sky. it's like you whip the sheet off of you when you're asleep and

Them hopes and dreams and the successes they've had in life, all coming together to cross over into this moment, to do something that is still one of the rarest of human experiences, and the human stories to me are obviously the most interesting. i'm delighted for all four of them. >> a few statistics. they're going to go 62 miles high, just above what's known as the carmen line to get into space. the mission is going to take about ten minutes, three minutes of weightlessness. their speed at peak will be three times the speed of sound, more than 2,200 miles per hour. as far as a ticket cost, w...