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>> reporter: geoff, there really is nothing like it, on both sides here. we were in the city of van horn for the last launch in late july. this time we were just a few miles away from where that rocket rose from the west texas desert. there were two holds that took place but it did take off on a blue sky sunshine day. by all accounts from everyone who witnessed the moment, it was a seamless mission from start to finish. i can tell you that as the rocket comes up, you can see it in the sky before you really hear it, and then feel it. and that is something that just creates goosebumps, this anti...

To come down significantly, and right now, blue origin still is not saying how much it is selling its seats for. i asked the two paying customers today what did it cost they did say whatever it was, they believe that it was worth it. >> kristen, there's something as you know called the overview effect that sometimes happens to those who see earth from space for the first time. is that what shatner experienced? >> you know, wolf, some experts say that it takes longer than four minutes of weightlessness to truly get the full effect of the overview effect. but i think it's safe to say that, at th...

Experienced about three minutes of weightlessness before the capsule started its descent back to earth. >> that was unlike anything they described. >> after landing safely, a blue origin team secured the capsule, and bezos himself did the honors. >> hello, astronauts. >> cheers as each of the four passengers walked out of the capsule, including captain kirk himself. >> captain kirk himself, the great william shatner. >> shatner telling bezos, it all happened so quickly. >> unbelievable. unbelievable. i mean, you know, the little things. the weightlessness, but to see the blue color rip by, and...

Feet, more than 60 miles above the earth's surface providing quite a view and an experience needless to say for the four on board. >> what you have given me is th most profound experience i coul have. i am so filled with emotion about what just happened. >> brand-new video just into fo now released by blue origin showing the first interiors of the mission in in particular th three or four minutes that they experience weightlessness as they floated around that space capsule. remember, it was back in late july when the company's founder took the inaugural fight flight for human spirit he took hi...

Star trek icon william shatner became the oldest person ever to travel to space. shatner and three other passengers were propelled from the desert of west texas to the edge of outer space aboard a new shepherd spacecraft developed by jeff bezos' rocket company, blue origin. it's the same spacecraft that took bezos to space this summer. bezos, a lifelong star trek fan, flew shatner as a guest along with blue origin executive audrey powers, and two paying customers. the out of this world adventure lasting just ten minutes from takeoff to landing. leaving all four passengers, including shatner, m...