. - and it is interesting because remember when sir david did blue planet and everyone was talking about the most important thing that year, do you think oceans have become less important as we now focus on the climate change bit of the problem? it all adds into the bigger picture. you know, the oceans are huge carbon sinks themselves, so everything is intertwined. what i am so pleased is one of the finalists for the earthshot prize, in fact, two of them, one of them is about regrowing coral, which is an incredible achievement, and the other one is about protecting 30% of the world's oceans, which will have a massive effect. you know, it is getting across this idea that these protected areas will benefit future generations because of the sustainability of it. it is not robbing fishermen of their livelihoods. it is increasing their livelihoods and increasing the reliability of those future generations being able to fish in the same places for years and years. it is reallyjust trying to get across that positivity of what these solutions can bring. right now, this is the episode about air p

the earth's gravity, all 4 crew members enjoyed 3 minutes of weightlessness and a view of our planet. a blue origin zoner jeff bezos hopes will eventually become more accessible to so cool space tourists in a race funded by billionaires. having such a relatable crew member on board is being seen as a publicity coo. it's no secret that a lot of people who like on space and space systems are star trek fans for the immediately resonate with captain kirk in the, in, in the seat on the passenger flight. as the capsule and its crew safely returned to earth, fans of an iconic science fiction show that inspired millions celebrated the return of sectional spaceship captain. well, if you can pick anybody better, i think from all of star trek to get to do that in on to be looking at that new frontier. i think really that it's, it's more it's bigger than chatting array and in captain kirk is star trek. but really star trek is the thing that has had the impact on space travel right. by presenting this optimistic vision of the future, especially in inclusive vision of the future, the new private space rac

. >> so much larger than me, life, it hasn't got anything to do with a green planet, a blue orb.thing, it's so small. this air which is keeping us alive is thinner than your skin. it's a -- it's a sliver. it's -- it's immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe. what you have given me is the most profound experience i can imagine. i'm so filled with emotion about what just happened. i just -- it's extraordinary. extraordinary. i hope i never recover from this. i hope that i can maintain what i feel now. i don't want to lose it. >> at the age of 90, captain kirk, to take us off the air tonight. and our coverage of the attack on our democracy will now continue. that's our broadcast for this evening. with our thanks for being with us, on behalf of our colleagues at nbc news, good night.

flight >> so much larger than me and life and it hasn't got anything to do with the living green planet, the blue origin, it has to do with the enormity and the quickness and the suddenness of life and death >> it's so beautiful >> yes, beautiful. >> no, i mean your words just amazing >> i can't even begin to express what i would love to do is to communicate as much as possible the jeopardy, the moment you see how the vulnerability of everything it's so smooth this air, which is keeping us alive, is thinner than your skin it's a sliver and immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe this air mars doesn't have it and nothing, i mean when you think how it changes to oxygen and that level sustains our life it's so thin to dirty it, i mean, that's another whole subject. >> so fast >> so quickly. 50 miles -- >> just in blackness >> in the moment -- >> this is life. >> this is life and that's death. in the instant you go, that's death. that's what i saw. >> that's what i saw >> that's amazing. >> i am overwhelmed. i had no idea. you know, we were talking earlier before going, well, you k

planet. that idea of fragility. that blue line is really thin. like william shatner said there is nobody else above it. nobody can live anywhere without a space suit because there is no other planet like earth out there. >> harris: it sounds worth in terms of going above that line to get that view. a couple of just methodical things. 62 miles to where i understand the whole world recognizes the international boundary of space. 11 minute trip. what does that teach us? we already know what is there. outside of -- as tom said making this for the common man or woman. does it accomplish anything. this is really expensive. >> it cracks me up when they say normal people can go. i came from a middle-class. now billionaires and william shatner can go to space. that cracks me up. the advantage is not that we learn something scientific on this particular flight. the advantage is william shatner can come back. the speech he just gave will inspire millions of people. companies like blue origin and space-x and virgin galatic are doing different things. these fl

it hasn't got anything to do with the little green planet, the blue orb. enormity and the quickness and the suddenness of life and death. oh my god. >> it's so beautiful. >> beautiful, yes, beautiful in its way. >> no, i mean your words. it's just amazing. >> i don't know. i can't even begin to express what i would love to do is to communicate as much as possible the jeopardy, the moment you see how -- the vulnerability of everything. it's so small. this air, which is keeping us alive is thinner than your skin. it's a -- it's a deliver. it's immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe. >> william shatner's experience today clearly exceeding expectation when is we spoke just last week. >> i'm looking forward to the whole thing. i've been there. i was there last week rehearsing, whatever they call it. >> training i think is what they call it. >> training. i think of it as rehearsal. i want to go to warp speed. take me to warp speed and they go "what"? and the weightlessness. you're thin enough but i'm not. imagine being weightless and staring

so -- so much larger than me and life and it hasn't got anything to do with the little green planet, the blue orb, it has to do with the enormity and the quickness and the suddenness of life and death. >> and shooting through it so fast. >> and you're in blackness. >> you're in death. the moment -- >> this is life and that's death. and it's in an instant, you go, whoa, that's death! that's what i saw. >> that's amazing. >> okay, that's deep. >> yeah. >> for a short flight, he got a lot out of it. >> he had an existential experience. and i guess so many people do. >> that's what we hear from these restaurants and some people are putting asterisks behind them because of how high they go, but once you see the earth, you see how fragile it really is, that it's life-changing. of course it is. >> and also, i had never heard it described the way that william shatner described it, which was blue, blue, blue, beautiful blue, and then you're in blackness. and he said, as you just heard, that was the difference between life and death. i had never heard it described that way. and he was also very candid

and we're looking here at the orbit of the planet's earth. is the blue line. and then you've got the inner lines, the red line, venus, and mercury, the gray in the middle. so you can see the prob, marked by the x. they are slowly moving in year by year, actually took one and a half years to get through. it's all but 3 is to get to the point of venus and now getting closer and closer into mercury's orbit. and as we said, the 1st of 6 fly buys before it is right day close to mercury was. we're going to talk to dr. political bands about this, his director, director ameritas at the center for remote sensing at boston university, but it was also former secretary of the lunar landing site selection committee at nasa. joining us from washington d. c. lovely to have you with us, dr. what do you think of those images, and are there any, the 1st ones? but what did you think of what you saw? my affinity, and really who wonderful because of the fact that we use the gravitational pull of mercury to pretty serious craft in grocer enough. so that we can see the pictures and

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new problems that all feed into the destructive cycle of extreme weather joy for planets as the west on al jazeera blue. ah, a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera sedans, military chief, has vowed to hold shadowed elections after dissolving the transitional, government, and declaring a state of emergency. the health ministry says 7 protest as have been killed by the army and large protests against the military. take over. the u. s. state department says it will suspend $700000000.00 of aid to sit down and response to the qu. egypt as joy, cat are france of the un envoy to sedan and calling for restraint. turkeys president says foreign diplomats must respect the country's laws if they want to remain. there is remarks follow a route between ankara and 10 ambassadors from western countries over a jailed activists. are more on our top story now, the military currency down and to understand what's happening now. it's important to look at the key events of recent years. in december 2018, thousands of people in the northeastern region of r, r a protested against high unemployment poverty and corrup

he talked about seeing the blue comforter, if you will, around the planet.s it -- especially where we have the climate crisis, where we have other challenges before us that we hear about these things in plain english, for lack of a better way to put it? >> it changes you. just to put some of this in context, i haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but alan shepard was america's first astronaut, went into a suborbital trajectory not much different than what william shatner just went through, and that happened 60 years ago. had you fished him out of the ocean and said in 60 years we're going to send a well-known actor into space and he's going to come back and feel emotional about it, i think they would have been shocked that we've come this far. better late than never, but i think the more different people you send into space, the more we can vicariously participate to who comes closer to where you are. i was alive in the apollo missions, and i didn't connect to them. sorry, i just didn't. they were like test pilots that had crew cuts at a time when the broadwa

planet. he did great work but they only had blue resolution cameras, so they couldn't see things that were evenresolution stuff but there were many images. this is a joint us space agency with japan can take really high—resolution images globally, and images of small parts of the surface... you can see things that are tens of metres across, and it can also explore the composition and magnetic field, so it is an awful lot of things. it is very small but it's got a magnetic field. mars doesn't have a magnetic field, and it's bigger. so in some ways it's like the earth. we don't understand why that is. also it's quite like the moon in some ways, in terms of the environment in most areas. there's a lot of geological activity, it has in the past had large volcanic provinces or lava flows. and there's weird things that we haven't seen on our planet like little hollows which appear to be where material from underground which appear to be where materialfrom underground is material from underground is seeping materialfrom underground is seeping to space, sort of like melting or evaporating ice. so it's

blue weather sponsored by katara always in the next episode of planet. as with the head of the upcoming you in climate conference will be heading deep on the ground and up into the air. get a new perspective. the changing face of the coal mining industry in poland ah, will report on illegal logging in romania and explore health, catastrophic wall flies in grief. it's created you problem that all feed into the destructive cycle of extreme weather. joy monitor to us on al jazeera. ah oh hello there, i'm starz, you tando. let's remind you about top stories here. this our top coil and gas executives have denied misleading the public about climate change. the ceo's of major oil companies appeared before the u. s. congress. and the 1st time they've testified under oath on the subject, u. s. president joe biden doesn't yet appear to have full support of his party for his $1.00 trillion dollars spending bill and democratic group in congress as it won't vote on the package without a separate 1.2 trillion dollar bill. meanwhile, though, president biden is now in r

and for the next 5 hours, the planets dependence on one big tech company is laid bare blue . i became aware trying to communicate with my family group shots on whatsapp, friends and family were based in iran. i thought that there's something going on with the internet in the run. and when i realized it wasn't, i went on to at twitter, which is when i realized that this will actually a global infrastructure. all issue happening with facebook. b as in difference of this particular outage is because it's not just 3 apps. it's one company which on the schools, how huge this company is probably over a quote i probably near a certain population on the planet have a facebook or set and or instagram account. so does. this is underscoring throwing in to start really the market dominance of this one company. many people run their businesses off of facebook and instagram. they receive orders for shipments through facebook and answer any depend on advertising to facebook and instagram, to keep their businesses going. i'm just a professor, so i wasn't affected personally in any way, but i

and then the blue origin rocket ready to launch. one is from planet labs, and also onboard is william shatner, and he played captain kirk here on nbc in 1963. he never has really been in space, just a sound stage in los angeles. video of the blue origin rocket called "the new shepherd." it's pretty much straight up and straight down after crossing the karma line. at 90, shatner will be the oldest astronaut ever, beating glenn john. the "today" show will carry the launch live. i have met william shatner in my 30 years of reporting, and he began to understand that we took him seriously, and we took him serious. >> yeah, we were talking about it, where he was a fictional character, and -- >> yeah, and at 90. >> i like his honesty. he's a little nervous. >>> "east bay times" have documents rendering a high-rise that would replace a one-story commercial building on harrison near 12th street. it calls for ground floor retail space. right now there's no timeline. >>> and then the hall of fame will have inductees, law bamba songwriter, richie valuens. governo

star who inspired generations with the idea of exploring other planets is now heading to space star trek's william shatner's on board a blue origin spacecraft due to lift off in a few hours. the 90 year old to become the oldest person to go to space. he's traveling on a flight operated by amazon owner jeff bays us his company. it was scheduled to blast off on monday. it was delayed because of strong wind. ah, i thought picture of the headlines here on al jazeera, afghanistan's new taliban government is calling on the international community to end sanctions, which it says risk undermining, security. the acting foreign ministers meeting us and european envoys and cutoff pro iranian political parties and groups and iraq have denounced the election results as a scam. only figure show a coalition led by the influential shia cleric methodical sada one, the most seats in parliament are 0 as ali hash. m, as in baghdad, and explains why some political parties are rejecting the results. they say that they're all around a 1000000 votes that were not counted under asking you for a re count at the same time. they say that these are ot

blue origin. a former nasa engineer and co-founder of planet labs, and the co-founder of a life sciences company. s is an exciting time for blue origin after nearly 20 years of existence. they're now on the cusp of their second crude flight. but it's also a time of renewed scrutiny on the company because just last week a group of 21 current and former employees co-signed an essay detailing what they describe as a toxic workplace environment. they say it's a place where professional dissent is actively stifled. they also talked about certain male leaders routinely engaging in sexist behavior. these are all claims that blue origin adamantly denies. they say that they have no tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind, but they also say that they are investigating any new claims of misconduct. you also have the faa reviewing these allegations. not an investigation, just a review. but jim and erica, 17 successful consecutive test flights for this new shepherd spacecraft. william shatner, odds are good for him. >> all right. and coming up quick, october 12 of the. appreciate it. thank you.

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and then to texas, the blue origin rocket ready to launch, with the founder of planet labs onboard, andliam shatner. shatner played captain kirk of the star ship enterprise here on nbc. a space hero to a generation. he's never been in space, only a sound stage in los angeles. video of the blue origin rocket as it took off carrying amazon founder jeff bezos and others to space in july, and the path was straight up and straight down after crossing the line of altitude known as the end of the atmosphere and the start of space. shatner will be the oldest astronaut ever, beating the record of the 77-year-old onboard the space shuttle "discovery" in 1988. i think everybody knows who captain kirk is, but as a little boy in madison, wisconsin, i would watch the repeats at about 4:00 in the afternoon on a tiny little black and white television in the kitchen. there's nothing i don't know about "star trek." >> i have only seen -- partially seen one episode my whole life. >> i used to watch the repeats. >> you did? >> yeah. interesting. ran three years -- >> yeah, and it was not very successful wh

star who inspired generations with the idea of exploring other planets is heading to space. star trek's william shatner is on board a blue origin spacecraft, which is due to left off in just a few hours. those are the headlines next. is al jazeera, well to stay with us. ah ah . oh, it didn't booms up, been captured, interrupt your, to the audiences a as in a yet, then you took us near to a with them all with there's a lot of love, but the friction in respect with the american people. i wish we are planning didn't commit from t to with the internet. she had a d. r a z. i mean when she was younger, sheer side that me daughter. i've had the black kids yates christ and she said the 2 year he's my son harper. you know, i just know how long you've had the blood like india. great. i shall. we and my she could said, be n o r longley lee about all would be a nasty feet lead. he like a movie . the rest of the day might be a for the india, they tell because she has plenty of get me a friend me that it's that is who had she come and then you were to me on did it last when it can get to help can schedule her can get to him and it was

becoming reality with companies like blue origins and elon musk's spacex coming up with this incredible technology to reuse these boosters, to land them back on planetnd ultimately make space flight much more affordable for everyday people and everyday customers, jim. >> kristin fisher, we should note the company has not explained the reason for this second delay, as they did not provide much detail on the first. erica, as we've noted, it's a private company, not subject to the same standards that we would see from nasa in a similar situation. >> it's true, but it makes for a different experience as you're watching this. miles, if we think about other launches -- i'm remembering the final shuttle launch which i was lucky enough to cover, you think about the communication you do have and the window you have that comes from the audio you hear. this is yet another reminder of just how different this space exploration, this private space exploration is, miles. >> it's hard to be a space reporter these days. at the risk of sounding like the old guy on the porch, in my day we used to know some things. i remember after i left cnn i was on the nasa advisory

star who inspired generations with the idea of exploring other planets is now heading to space. star trek's william shatner is on board a blue origin spacecraft due to lift off in a few hours. the 90 year old will become the oldest person to go to space. he's traveling on the flight operated by amazon owner jeff bays us his company. it was scheduled to blast off on monday that was delayed because of strongly care. ah, i talked to got the headlines here on al jazeera, afghanistan's new taliban government is calling on the international community to en sanctions, which it says, risk undermining, security. the acting foreign ministers meeting us and european envoys and cutoff pro iranian political parties and groups and iraq have denounced the election results as a scam. only figures show a co.

planets . now heading to space himself, star trek's william shatner is on board a blue origin spacecraft you to lift off in a few hours time. the 90 year old will become the oldest person to go into space. he's traveling on a flight operated by amazon owner jeff base also company. it was scheduled to blast off on monday that was delayed because a strong wind. i want to have a vision. i want to see space. i want to see the your. i want to see what we need to do who say earth. i want to have our perspective that hasn't been shown to me before. uh, that's what i'm interested in seeing. aah! quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera janice don's new taliban government is calling on the international community to en sanctions, which it says risk undermining security. the acting formulas.

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planets . now heading to space himself. star trek's william shatner is on board a blue origin spacecraft you to lift off in a few hours time. the 90 year old will become the oldest person to go into space. he's traveling on a flight operated by amazon owner jeff bezos, his company. it was scheduled to blast off on monday that was delayed because a strong wind. i want to have a vision. i want to see space, i want to see the your, i want to see what we need to do to save earth. i want to have a perspective that hasn't been shown to me before. so that's what i'm interested in . see. ah, don't forget check the headlines here on al jazeera janice dawn's new taliban government is calling on the international community to end sanctions, which it says risk undermining, security. the acting foreign ministers meeting us and european envoys in cutoff. meanwhile, catalyst fun minister says the will should not abandon afghanistan, but instead should engage with the taliban for the sake of afghans. from our perspective, we see that it's very important to provide these to provide guidance for, for them to ins

planets, soundtracks. william shatner is the latest celebrity to take on that mission. his on board, a blue origin spacecraft, which is due to lift off shortly from van horn in texas. a 90 year old is set to become the oldest person to go to space. his launch was scheduled for monday, but it was delayed because of strong winds. now the 19 year old. oh blade captain kirk, of course, in the series, will be on board a blue origin capsule, which is blasting off from texas, as we've said, is following in the footsteps of the world's richest man jeff bezos. he reached out a space in july which the world governing body puts at about 100 kilometers above earth. that same month entrepreneur richard branson also took off in his specially designed rocket, plain branson's virgin galactic mission, reaching out to altitude of 88 kilometers. now both commercial flights are still a long way from the international space station which orbit around 400 kilometers above earth. but all our major milestones, of course, in the push towards private commercial space travel live to andy gallagher, who's in miami for

more people up there and do things like what we do at blue, the faster we will make the technology and benefits available to people all over the planetonaut since he was 4 but couldn't do it. he gets kids excited about s.t.e.m. it's just interesting to see it. william shatner gets the call. can i go? this is his life's dream. >> do they consider themselves astronauts? >> good question. i was talking to kristin fisher on friday for a little prep of this interview. that is up for debate. i asked what they thought. >> small a. followed by two sss. >> i'll take the astronaut title. i would very much appreciate being held in that club. >> william shatner he is the small a, double ss kind of astronaut. we have a little bit more we didn't show. we will show you a little bit later this morning. there is a letter by 21 and former employees raising safety concerns about blue origin. i said if that gives some of them because before this flight. stay tuned. >> we call that a tease. >>> just ahead, breaking news on a new pill to treat people infected with covid. could this be a game changer? >>> plus, survivors calling out the company that turned

people up there and do things like what we're doing at blue, the faster we'll make that technology and those benefits available to people all over the planetatization of space and bringing benefit to everyone around the world. and i appreciate to point that out. we have a lot of problems to solve here. this is about solving those problems. >> real quickly, before i let you all go, there's a lot of talk about are you or are you not an astronaut after a flight like this. i'll go down the line, glen. then to audrey. would you consider yourselves an astronaut once you're back on planet earth? >> i'm going to consider myself a changed person and it didn't really matter what you want to call me. >> audrey? >> i will. i'll take the astronaut title. i would very much appreciate being held in that club. >> william shatner, astronaut? how is the sound of that? >> small "a." followed by two ss. >> yeah. i don't think it's fair to call this tourism yet. you know, it's too early in this new public space age first to call this tourism. there is risks and i think all of us have made a decision to be part of this flight and to be pioneers to help open the

this idea did when he looked on planet earth and they see the curvature of the planet, and this is the black of space in the bluet. that is an example of it in fewer than 600 people have been where he has been. if you go back to 60 odd years ago, only 500 odd people have been above 100 km and now william shatner is one of them. and he really enjoyed it. i don't know whether or not will get a chance but we thought it was fabulous. if chance but we thought it was fabulous. ., ., , , ., fabulous. if more of us went up and saw how beautiful _ fabulous. if more of us went up and saw how beautiful our _ fabulous. if more of us went up and saw how beautiful our planet - fabulous. if more of us went up and saw how beautiful our planet is, - saw how beautiful our planet is, we would look after a little bit of the better but what is the future of these rocket trips that he has spent a good bit of money and advertisement on? it’s a good bit of money and advertisement on? �* , ., ., , advertisement on? it's going to be interestin: advertisement on? it's going to be interesting to _ advertisement on? it's going to be interes

blue origin rocket. he called it a profound experience and tresed the need to protect the planet earth.sten fisher has the details for you. >> 2, 1. >> reporter: and with that, 90-year-old 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's rocket company blue origin. it's the same craft that took bezos to space this summer. bezos, a lifelong star trek fan, brought shatner as a guest along with audrey powers and two paying customers. the out of this world adventure lasting just ten minutes from take off to landing leaving all four passengers including shatner mesmerized by the view. >> weightlessness. oh, jesus. no description. >> this is nuts! >> oh, god. >> reporter: shatner and his crew mates experienced three minutes of weightlessness before the capsule started its descent back to earth. >> there go the pair chutes. >> that was unlike anything to describe. >> reporter: after landing safely,

planet earth today after his space odyssey. the actor known for his role of captain kirk on "star trek" was a passenger onboard jeff bezos' bluetrip lasted about ten minutes but might have been the best ten minutes of his life. >> the whole physical experience of mounting that, getting into the chair, being weightless, having five gs and suddenly as i'm coming down i'm thinking you know something? i'm 90 years old. >> yes, he is. he looks great. shatner is now the oldest person ever to go to space. >> i mean, 90. he doesn't even look like it. he doesn't act like it. that was amazing. >> he was so animated. those news conferences and interviews >> i loved it. it was so genuine. i loved it. >>> let's talk about our weather here down on earth. what a nice day. >> it was an interesting time of year when you definitely need the heater in the morning at night but still need to run to air conditioning for the afternoon. i think you'll really get that going for tomorrow and saturday as temperatures are set to climb back to the 80s inland. today we warmed up to the upper 70s earlier around livermore. 76 degrees. mostly sunny skies. wal

he made a great analogy, he saw the earth, the beautiful blue sky with the blackness. all the planetsre just dead planets. they are interesting, but the military wants to use them as on the dish at a rocket off of. to be practical, the only things space technology is good for is to divert an asteroid. but these dead planets, you can grow things on them. that would be pretty expensive. the climate change on earth is changing so rapidly, whether it's dry climate or it's too much rain, we will be having a problem producing food. we have to get real on this. host: let's go to harvey who is calling from rockaway new york on the independent line. good morning. >> thanks for taking my call. i think the biggest problem we have is the divide in our country and i think a lot of the issues occur with the divide and the people themselves. people in washington obviously can't get much accomplished, but we as a country have always been able to overcome most anything and i don't see any reason why we can't. our people need to get more involved, to be more patient and understanding with each other's

blue? in that moment i just was, like, we are so lucky. like, each and every one of us are so lucky to be here. like, what a beautiful, stunning planet, the little things have become huge things for me. and the huge things are no longer as significant. >> reporter: for the 50-year-old who's been working since she was a child on tv shows like "little house on the prairie," one significant thing that dougherty is not thinking of is her legacy. >> i mean, i don't think i've even come close to it, i don't think i've started on that path yet. for me, i feel like i'm just starting. i think i'm just starting to find moments of complete and utter honesty. and in my acting. >> you've been quoted as saying you don't believe in bucket lists. >> i like to say those are goals. because a bucket list almost feels like those things that you check off before you die, and i never want to operate like that. i just want to operate as, i don't have things to check off, because i'm going to keep fighting to stay alive. >> our thanks to juju. >>> up next, the finalists and the grueling competition. who is leading the pack in "fat bear week"? is struggling

private space flight companies are trying to do like blue origin, trying to get other people to experience this in the hopes that when they come back to planet earth, they'll be able to do things in their lives to make the world a better place. i have to go back through some of these incredible lines that william shatner had. he told jeff bezos, you have given me the most profound experience. i'm so filled with emotion about what just happened, i hope i never recover from this. i don't want to lose it. there are so many people who go into space who are skilled in so many different areas, they're brilliant scientists, mathematicians, engineers, test pilots, doctors. william shatner was just able to put that experience into words that i don't think i've ever heard any astronaut quite capture that way. i know there's going to be a big debate about are these four crew members, are they now officially astronauts? well, they crossed the carmen l line. you saw the company, blue origin giving them their pins. the company certainly thinks they're astronauts. william shatner during his interview with erica hill earlier this week, he said something pro

planets. well, we appreciate your insight. thank you very much for that. all right, we're going to cross back live now to texas, where the blue origin has landed successfully. jeff bezos was there to welcome back to william shatner and his 3 passengers. the 90 road has blasted into space reaching the final frontier aboard. a ship that we mentioned was built by jeff bezos. the blue origin company, the star trek hearer, and 3 fellow passengers thought to an estimated 106 kilometers over the west of texas. in the fully automated capture and then safely parachuted to the desert floor in flight, the laughter just over 10 minutes and cost millions and millions of dollars shut in . there is the oldest person to be launched into space eclipsing the previous record set by a passenger on a similar joint on a spaceship or launch in july by a few years. all right, let's bring layer and right back, sees a space commentator and joins us for free from dublin. what are you making of these pictures? and jeff are saying they're to welcome everyone. what do you think the passengers on board got to say? well certainly we've already heard from th

he made a great analogy, he saw the earth, the beautiful blue sky with the blackness. all the planetsre just dead planets. they are interesting, but the military wants to use them as on the dish at a rocket off of. to be practical, the only things space technology is good for is to divert an asteroid. but these dead planets, you can grow things on them. that would be pretty expensive. the climate change on earth is changing so rapidly, whether it's dry climate or it's too much rain, we will be having a problem producing food. we have to get real on this. host: let's go to harvey who is calling from rockaway new york on the independent line. good morning. >> thanks for taking my call. i think the biggest problem we have is the divide in our country and i think a lot of the issues occur with the divide and the people themselves. people in washington obviously can't get much accomplished, but we as a country have always been able to overcome most anything and i don't see any reason why we can't. our people need to get more involved, to be more patient and understanding with each other's