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Woman T minus 50 seconds until takeoff.. The Blue Origin flight is only gon na, be 11 minutes.. You get inside. There’s, no pilots. It’s totally automated.. Everything should work perfectly. If it doesn’t. There are backup systems, but there’s, really, no human intervention with that spacecraft and it’ll come back to earth.. So it’s. Like again, the ride go up, weightless look at the planet, look around a little bit and then come back. Down. Woman, Jeffrey Bezos is set to leave July 20th with his brother, a space tourist who paid 28 million and Wally Funk. Who is 82 years old.? This is nine days after Richard Branson took his Virgin space flight.. Oh my God., So let’s start off with a countdown for mission. Control. Man T minus 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four command engine start two one. rocket roars Woman And we have liftoff. Go new Shepard go., First lift off., The crew will strap in and prepare for their launch.. The engines will light and take them off. The launch pad., I think the most important thing during liftoff – is to pay attention, be alert and don’t touch anything you’re, not supposed to. That’s. What I would say. Don’t say quotHey. I wonder what this button does.quot Don’t do. Anything.. I went to space on the space shuttle., The main engines started up first.. We were on our backs waiting there on the launch pad for a couple hours making sure everything was okay.

And the main engines start and they ran for about six seconds. Man Now checking the SRVs. Firing chain is armed., But after those six seconds the solid rocket Boosters would light and they’re like giant sticks of dynamite.. You could not turn those off. So once they light you’re on your way.. My first launch seemed like a blink.. It went by so quickly. Everything was so new., But the second time I felt like I was a little more engaged because I knew what was gon na happen and I just wanted to enjoy it as best. I could and I think, that’s the important thing.. This is a very rare experience, getting a chance to be under powered flight with a big rocket motor. Underneath you taking you away from the planet. Woman T plus two minutes. Flight hits Mach 3.. After a couple minutes, the G forces build up. The maximum GS that we took where 3 Gs.. So what that means is that’s three times the force of gravity that’s hitting you in the chest. You’re on your back, because that’s the best way to take that G force is right in the chest.. It feels like a pile of bricks is on your chest. Like you have three big dudes sitting on you. That’s, what it felt like three times my body weight hitting me in the chest and that lasted for about two and a half minutes. Man Standing by for separation.. When you experience, zero gravity is dependent on when your engines stop running.

. So I was under those G forces and then the engines cut and it got really quiet. And then all the violence, all the shaking stopped and everything started to float.. I was still strapped in my seat, but my arms just rose up like this. Woman, T plus three minutes. Capsule separates from booster. Zero G begins.. Next, the crew will enter zero gravity.. They will experience weightlessness for a few minutes. One of the first things I noticed when I got to space was I didn’t feel so well.? I just felt nauseous and I knew this could happen.. It happens to most astronauts because your inner ear is not working.. It works on gravity., So the vestibular system, inner ear, zero gravity, nothing’s happened. It’s, telling the brain you are perfectly still, but as you’re moving around your eyes are saying: quotOh no you’re, not you’re moving around.quot. So you can get that conflict and it can lead to disorientation and nausea.. My advice to anyone going on one of these trips is medicate.. Take the nausea medicine that’s available to you.. They have pretty good nausea medicine. These days. Ask the medical officer. There’s got ta, be someone that knows about that stuff. Working at these companies. quotWhat. Do you suggestquot Take that stuff and I think that’ll help you enjoy the experience ’cause? Why take the chance You might unstrap and feel really awful and it’s only a couple of minutes so that’s? What I would do.

Woman T, plus four minutes. Flight reaches apogee. And the flight will reach its apogee, which means its highest point away from the planet. There’ll. Be able to unstrap float around a little bit and take a look out the window., So we would wan na be really careful. When you first get the space you’re out of control.. When I first got the space and I went to look out the window and I felt out of control it’s like learning to walk, again. You’re, just moving around., And I grabbed something – and I grabbed a circuit breaker, which I wasn’t supposed to grab and pulled it Out and it wasn’t supposed to happen., I said quotOh, my goodness., The first thing I’ve done in space was something wrong.quot. But of course I reported it to my commander in the ground and he said: quotDon’t worry about it.quot. It was just switch that really wasn’t needed at that time., So I just put it back in., But it made me realize you got ta, be careful around you and watch what you’re holding onto.. So if you get out of control you’re liable to do something, you might regret so you wan na be really careful about that.. You usually wan na, go slowly and be under control, so you can enjoy the experience and you can move around more actually more efficiently and quickly when you do that., So go slow to speed, up. And that’s. What I wanted to do on my first space flight of course, was unstrap and take a look at the planet and that’s what I did.

. I got a chance to see the planet from space for the first time and that’s the moment that you’re looking forward to. The overview effect is the term that is used for the experience that people have gone above the Karman line. Astronauts when they view the planet You’Re seeing it from a different perspective, and it can change the way that you feel about the earth or our role in the universe or the beauty of our planet and all those different emotions and feelings that people have tried to describe over the years. Since we first started sending people to space has been putting this category of the overview effect., And I think most people feel that as well, where you see the thickness of the atmosphere – and you see the beauty of our planet., I think it mainly it’s an emotional Experience of what it’s like to look back on our home from space. Woman, T plus six minutes. Time for reentry. Astronauts rebuckle., Then the crews will start their descent back toward earth. As they get closer to the planet. The G forces will build up again and they’ll start to feel heavy. After being weightless going from zero to something feels a lot more than it would be.. Your body is getting used to that again, but I was in space for a couple weeks.. I don’t know what it’s gon na be like for them. It’ll be an interesting question.. What was it like, after just being there for a few minutes? Did your body have to go through another orientation to readjust to gravity, So we’ll see what happens but it’s, more a function of slowing down and having the earth pull you back in than it is of any particular altitude or speed.

. Tomorrow is a big day for you. You’ve had all kinds of big days, but is tomorrow the biggest day for you They’ve all been very special. And that’s, because It lands.. So in my flights on the space shuttle, when we were coming back to earth, we were orbiting at 17500 miles an hour., And so what we did is we pointed our rocket ship, the rocket itself, the backend of the space shuttle where the engines were not the Main engines, but these two big engine bells on the side and we would burn those engines. We’d light ’em up.. What that did is that propelled us in the opposite direction and acted like putting on the brakes., And so as you slow down, you’ll get lower and lower and then eventually you’ll pick up the Earth’s atmosphere as your altitude lowers.. That builds up friction lot of heat in the case of the shuttles about four to 5000 degrees outside of the space shuttle got really hot., We felt fine inside, but I could see the tail.. I was on the flight deck and I could see by holding up a mirror. I was able to look out the window and see the tail of the space shuttle. And I was filming it for a while.. I was like quotWell it’s cool.. It looks like the tail is almost on fire.quot And I was like quotThat’s scary. Enough of that.quot, And then we got below that and we picked up the horizon of the earth.

Again. What’s different about the Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson’s spaceflights, compared to what we’ve done up till now is that this truly, I think, marks the entry point of commercial space flight., Unlike spaceships, that carry astronauts to the international station, they’re, typically flying for their governments. This is a new way that people can get to space with a commercial company and a private enterprise. Woman, T plus nine minutes. Parachutes deploy., And then they will land with a parachute very close to where they took off like almost an amusement park. Ride. We got lower and lower and at one point, as we were picking up the atmosphere, it almost seemed like we were in a cloud.. We would just exciting the particles around us., So it was almost like we were in a soup. What would you say Like when you’re flying an airplane. You’re in a soup, you just in a cloud., You can’t, see anything and I had no sensation of motion.. We still didn’t have Gs really building up at that point, but I had no visual indication out the window that we were moving at all and I felt like I was perfectly still no indication of motion at all. Until I looked at our velocity indicator., We were still going about 12000 miles an hour at that point. That’s. The only thing that told me we were still moving. Woman, T plus 10 minutes. Capsule lands.. Finally, touchdown. The crew will have completed their journey to space and back.

. I think they’re pretty much gon na be able to get off and walk away. Just like they’re getting off an airplane in both the Blue Origin and the Virgin Galactic examples., Your body hasn’t had any deterioration.. It hasn’t been much of an adaptation ’cause. It wasn’t very long to zero gravity, so I think they’ll come back and be in one gravity without any issues. We had been in space in my case on the shuttle. Usually, typically, it was about a two week: journey. That’s, what it was for me because you’re adjusting to gravity, but that was the goal.. You wanted to do that and look up and point to the spaceship and not fall over, like I was a zombie or Herman Munster or somebody walking around Frankenstein moving around. So I wouldn’t fall over very slowly. On my flights once we landed you’re back on the runway, now. You’re grateful to be home and safe.. I don’t think you’re gon na need the same physical conditioning that I needed when I was an astronaut to fly to space.. I think it’s gon na be more like the amusement park, restrictions. Woman Mission accomplished.. I would love to go on one of these flights with Richard Branson or with Jeff Bezos or with anyone else that was interested in going, but I don’t wan na pay that much money for it. So I’m, not paying for that experience. But I would be happy to go if they want an interested observer, or maybe some help.

. I could be the flight attendant. I’m happy to do whatever they would want me to do on one of these flights.. I would love to do it, but the ticket price is a little much for me right now.. I think I’ll wait till the price comes down. If I have to pay for it., Even though only it’s a couple minutes, they will get a chance to look around to look at our planet to experience weightlessness and especially that view of our planet and what it looks like from space. They’ll. Be able to get a pretty good look at it, even though, for just for a couple minutes., We understand a lot about how our planet works by being here on the planet, but there’s still lot of big questions like where did we come from? How did we get here And how to best, take care of our planet that I think we can only answer by traveling to space ’cause? It gives you that different perspective. So I’m interested to see what these two guys in particular, who are very interesting people very successful entrepreneurs, have experienced a lot of things in their lives..

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