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There. now the youngest person to ever go to space, an 82-year-old aviator woman wally funk now the oldest to go to space. bezos and his brother on board. all i hear is elation. >> bill: a couple of things we could hear bezos said. he said my main mission was accomplished. i didn't pick up what he said after that. then later he said i was surprised how easy zero-g was meaning that 3 to 4 minute period in space. >> sandra: i don't know if they had three minutes. expected three minutes. >> bill: this is so great. there will be video that will play out this morning that was recorded inside the ca...

Send setbacks, and her case at the age of 22, having passed the same astronaut selection and physical tests as the mercury seven astronauts in the united states, and then wait 60 years and keep trying. she didn�*t give up. she�*s already been on a zero g flight, so those descriptions that you�*ve just heard about, you know, floating around, she knows all of that. she did one of those flights on her 60th birthday. so she has done all she could to get to this day to keep faith, to keep training. she did two weeks training with the cosmonauts in russia courtesy of a tv channel in russia cou...

And mr branson was quick to congratulate mr bezos today — tweeting here's what mr bezos had to say for himself when he got back to earth. 0h oh my god! my expectations were high and they were dramatically exceeded! we were talking about this a little bit in the car right on the way back and, i don't know, the zero g may have been one of the biggest surprises to me because it felt so normal. it, almost like we were as humans evolved to be in the environment, which i know is impossible. don't forget, there's also elon musk, founder of the company, spacex, who hopes to make his mark in commerci...

>> all right. that was incredible. >> that was a blast. >> wally, that was incredible. >> it was! >> i was surprised how easy zero g was. it felt very like natural. like swimming. it is weird. >> what a day. you can see our four, the world's newest minted astronauts on board, discussing their incredible flight of a lifetime up to space and back. wow. our team is now preparing landing safety operations.

And it was way more than four months of training, by the way. >> oh, i'm sorry, correct me on it. >> it was six months of training, and it was a condensed -- it takes years to train, but they condensed it because i had a little time line to be on. but it was crazy. the training was very insane. but i was going on a mission to the iss and lived there for seven days and had experiments and all that, so it's completely different from the space tourism now where it's just a fun roller coaster to go up and experience zero g for a couple of minutes. but i had a few things i really wanted to do up th...