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Civilians. there's much more to come as we've seen. let me begin our coverage with cnn's kristin fisher. she's live at the launch site and has been covering all this in texas. we know as we saw with the last flight, there's going to be videos coming out and we're going to see a lot more, but it looked flawless. >> blue origin has to be very, very happy about this mission. it looked flawless. we'll certainly get to hear a bit more about that. we should get some of that video later today of william shatner and the rest of the crew floating around during the precious four minutes of weightlessnes...

Weightlessness is less than half the time it took us to just to get into pace. it will happen so fast. the view is pretty spectacular. it's unlike anything they have seen. i remember my first glimpses of the earth from space. i remember thinking, man, i have never seen anything like this before. i thought i would be ready for it and i wasn't. i was trying to fly the shuttle so i could not stare out the window. it will be quicker than they thought and a normal astronaut would be like wow that was quick. it would still be a fun experience. >> dana: eyes on the road. >> i know. >> dana: thank you...

There is a big reinvestment that space activity helps right here on earth. >> harris: i want to talk about what space does to the body. when you are 90, you are prepping for this. you are not flying with the blue angels every afternoon so you know how to clinch your teeth and what zero gravity feels like. i was a child of a combat pilot. what does it do for william shatner to go 62 miles up in the air even if it was only 11 minutes? >> well, the first thing is weightlessness. as soon as that engine shuts off you are floating. you can only experience that on earth for a few seconds if an airpla...

That become. smiles all around. william shatner taking in the moment, clearly. >> what you have done, if everybody in the world needs to do this. everybody in the world needs to see the -- it was unbelievable. unbelievable. i mean, you know, the little things, the weightlessness, but to see the blue color just whip by, and now you're staring at the blackness. that's the thing. the covering of blue is -- the steepest blanket, this comforter of blue that we have around us. we think well, that's blue sky. and suddenly you shoot there it and rip off a sheet like you're asleep, and you're looking i...

Shatner sitting inside this capsule right now. here is one who has spent so much of his life, so much of his life so closely tied to space, yet he's never actually been to space. here he is minutes away from that becoming a reality. when there was this first wind delay, he talked about how much that delay extended his feelings of excitement and shear terror. so you have to imagine those feelings are even more heightened now that he's actually sitting on top of this, essentially what's a controlled explosive about to launch him and three others into space. when they get there, they're going to ...