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will spend four minutes floating in microgravity after a summer of launches including by jeff bezos, richard branson and elon musk. this week, all eyes on the blue origin recruit >> i'm anxious and a little nervous and frightened about this whole new add ven occur >> never too late for captain kirk to remind himself >> risk is our business. that's what the star ship is all about. >> reporting for nbc news, los angeles. >>> a day on the water in new york turned into a rescue mission after a boat caught fire in a marina. at the venice marina in brooklyn, they were able to get people safely off the boat five people suffered injuries. no word how that fire started. >>> a missing fort hood soldier who disappeared has been found the private first class jennifer sewell went missing and failed to show up for work. releasing a statement saying she was found, her family said she was safe the private first class is a valued member of our team. our number one priority is ensuring her safe return >>> the area known as tornado alley is living up to its name with at least six possible tornadoes in the oklahoma are

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demonize the lifeblood of modern civilization and the people funding this whether it's the jeff bezos or richard branson or bill gates who is one of the biggest climate activists, actually is bidding on the world's largest private jet transport company so it's not going to affectthem all . i get into that in the book as well. this is a system in which the people in charge are going to have their livesaffected . this will affectwhat we regrettably called the masses . the new deal will suppress the absolute masses. we have people declaring in a climate emergency they want to go from cobit lockdowns to climate lockdowns. you can only flywhen it's morally justifiable . we have climate lockdowns where people will have missed more freedom. you have a moment who likes recessions. this is why the major environmentalists praise the covid lockdowns and there is a movement in academia where they need to add climate change because it causes death to death certificates so we can start getting the tolls from climate change will be much greater. they want to now have climate change daily, monthly annual death toll eng

months or 3 months, how many times says space tourism in the being the good news with jeff bezos them richard branson and everybody going to speak. so i think it's a market opportunity for the best. if you remember though, the firm called the martian starting bad treatment, nobody taught movie about bars would attract maybe box off is structured, but it was a very big ah a quick reminder of those top stories on al jazeera, a group of 17 christian missionaries, including children have been kidnapped in haiti. they were on their way to the airport in the capitol, porto pranced when they were taken by armed men in the area of guns there. 16 of the missionaries who were building an orphanage or from the u. s. and one from canada, haiti, of course, is injured years of economic and political upheaval, but the situation worse and after the assassination of president joe.

2 months or 3 months, how many times says space tourism and being that the news with jeff bezos and richard branson and everybody going to speak. so i think it's a market opportunity for the best 3. and so i guess it depends on how the public would take it, but all indications are big. if you remember, there was a firm called the martian starting matt damon. yeah. nobody thought of movie about mars would attract in the box office structure, but it was a very big hit. but you can feel that on earth. this is what i'm thinking. the business case for this whole thing is that there's another film and the names escaped me, but i know it was george clooney and sandra bullock and i were floating around in space and it was old on green screen. i'm just wondering, is there a real case for, for doing this? no, i don't think that is see, this is when you're talking movies your drink talking entertainment. ah. so is there, can you feel great business or not? that has been difficult. you can feel weightlessness on a different leg, matha, hello, airplane, where it goes very fast and it's called the bomb it commen

richard branson's virgin galactic. now here you are going up on blue origin, jeff bezos plane. anson's? >> well, it's not that i don't love each of those billionaires, but it's because the opportunity presented itself. jeff bezos vision is a remarkable practical one. let's build the industries on earth, build it in space. connection with space. it's not flying to flying to mars in 1 1/2 years, six months there, six months back, this is let's build now and start right now to protect our planet. >> neil: you've heard this more than you care to, mr. shatner that at 90 years young, you're the oldest human being up to this point to travel into space. when you were peppered with that question, you said over the weekend, i'm bloody captain kirk. yet all they're focusing on including this questioner is your age. what do you think of that? >> yeah. well, the only thing about age that has an application to this particular vehicle is getting in and out of the seat with any kind of three cyst. so unless you're really supple, getting in and out of these seats in weight when we're on gravity

of the federal government, it will be because of the entrepreneurial spirit of people like richard branson jeffmore powers to the weirdos. kennedy: if it weren't for weirdos, i wouldn't be here right now. [laughter] that's right. marie, this is the think that's going to -- not going to be the government or nasa, bless their heart but this is where cool stuff is going to be. >> and my favorite is still multifunctional a shout out to the lady astronaut. i never watched "star trek" i will admit shatner emotion was moving and honest and raw and i like that but i agree this is my private industry in our country is so amazing because we can do things like this and still look to the stars push the limits and there's a bunch of use for that in addition to just exploration so i think my amazon prime membership, i'm happy for it to go towards this cause. kennedy: i don't have a problem with it. he doesn't have all the money in the world, it's funny elon musk has about 30 billion more than jeff bezos and sent him of silver metal on twitter which i think is funny and elon musk is like peas, it's super fun.

program can and giving it to jeff bezos or, richard branson and elon russif musk, heir going, hey, ifhings along the way. william shatt9er in looked back at the earth, and he was changed forever and loved the earth even more. >> yes. and also, i mean, who am i -- i have done far less productive things with my money as a private citizen than space exploration. and you know what? he's done far less than people with money. he isn't even a private citizen that earns, so for him to judge, i mean, i'm not a betting person, but if i were, i would become one just to bet that, you know, my carbon footprint is a ba ideal times smaller -- kennedy: yeah x. that's a real number. >> it's a number. kennedy: for the billions of americans who are listening to our podcast -- [laughter] about how i -- >> all the worst mistakes i've a made in television. are. [laughter] i'm a mini katie couric. [laughter] kennedy: it's really the best. god, we're so amazing. should we talk about how amazing we are? >> we are really good. but i think that people know that. kennedy: maybe what william is trying to do is br

i think people would have laughed at you more until recently when we saw richard branson and jeff bezosinto space as private companies. is that a model for you for success? >> incredibly inspired by what's been accomplished at spacex and blue origin and virgin galactic. sometimes the most important breakthroughs come from folks who have the benefit of a fresh perspective, coming from outside the industry. >> reporter: and united airlines isn't laughing. it's ordered 15 supersonic jets with options for 35 more. its first flights will be newark to london which now takes about seven hours. the supersonic jet will do it in about 3.5, and overseas business trip could be done in a single day. and that's what customers want, says michael leskinen, president of united airlines ventures. >> the difference will be that we won't have live seats and we're going to be getting customers home to their own beds. >> reporter: in terms of validating or encouraging this dream, how important is it that you have a client like, say, united airlines that says if you build it we'll buy it? >> absolutely critic

both jeff pathos, a lot mosque and richard branson are all fighting for dominance in this race to get people like you and i up into space to make it cheaper to make it more accessible. and there's no one more accessible, i think, than william shatner, who, you know, a lot of people working on the blue origin project site. they were highly influenced by star trek as a tv show and remember shot net 1st hit, the screens in 1966 that 3 years before we landed on the moon. and here we are half a century later. and william shatner is actually taking the journey for himself. so in terms of this space rates between these 2 and 3, johns, yes, the so me go involved here, but getting shatner on board. the blue origin i think is a huge to for bays off. it's got lots of people watching lots of people saying what shatner's reaction will be when he gets back down to earth. but right now, we're on this holding patton's. he can only imagine what bill shatner is feeling strapped into this new shepherd capsule. remember, there's no pilot is all automated about to be blasted up into the atmosphere while f

there is the widening pool of candidates where anyone can be invited by jeff bezos or richard bransonhatner turned down an invite from branson. he thought that maybe bezos was a better fit. i don't know all of the details. >> bill: he must be getting more shares of amazon. the last crew showed up the day before. >> yeah. it's amazing. >> dana: now just be there an hour and a half before the flight. >> you think what mike went through. the rigorous process. all kidding aside, we should never take this cavalierly or lightly. going into space is not like taking a jet blue flight. there are a lot of risks to it. we are getting used to this. but the fact of the matter is it's still dangerous. we have to keep that in mind. bill, to your point, what might prompt a delay. it could be winds or something in the capsule or just getting all seated and ready. time is tight on this mission. it's a 10 minute mission. 4 minutes ever weightlessness. if they were me just getting out of the seat occupies 4 minutes. you want to treasure this moment for the few brief moments. >> bill: you are on stand by.

tesla's elon musk, amazon's founder jeff bezos, virgin galactic's richard branson, all of them blasting to but bill gates said instead of escaping a dying planet on a spaceship, we've got to do stuff here on earth. one company is trying to turn that idea on its head. it's using space technology to solve human problems, from geopolitics to climate change. here's nbc's jake ward. >> reporter: why is data from space so valuable? think about it this way. if you're an agricultural company looking to make farms more productive, you could put up a drone and scan a couple hundred acres to see which plants look dry, sure, or you could buy imagery from a satellite that can see 700 million acres for about 100 times less money affordable daily satellite imagery is also a vital weapon against climate change why? because until now we just didn't have enough data to see the change happening in realtime >> we can't stop deforestation if we're only measuring every year if it happens in days same with emissions, same with agriculture and same with all of these things you need data on the time scale of ch

jeff bezos. elon musk and others are playing in this game, as well as richard branson. the captain is going with jeff bezos. that will do it. >> dana: i am dana perino. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five" -- this is "the five." chaos, confusion, mass cancellations. thousands of people living their worst travel nightmares across the country. southwest airlines canceling nearly 2,000 flights and that instruction continues today with more than 350 being called off and another 750 delayed. frustration boiling over for passengers who say they were completely blindsided. >> we didn't find out until 5:00 this morning that it was canceled. we were on the phone for seven hours. it was so backlogged. >> said they were having problems. they didn't say what it was and "you're lucky you got a flight." because the weather is fine and all collecting areas. connecting areas. that has to be something we haven't seen. >> dana: southwest blaming it on air traffic control and severe weather. the faa contradicting it saying it's not to blame for what happened. the cancellations

liz: have you, though, been able to gauge whether this , or jeff bezos' recent flight, or richard branson'sp, whether it pumps up investor interest? >> you know, many of the space companies out there, especially pure play space companies, aren't just focused on space tourism and even blue origin and spacex, which offer space tourism solutions, that isn't necessarily the big picture, that is one business unit, whereas a company like virgin galactic is a little bit more dependent on space tourism, although they are also looking at hypersonic point-to-point travel, so, people looking at how space tourism is growing as an industry, the one publicly -traded proxy for that is kind of virgin galactic but when people really talk about their excitement for the space industry, it's companies doing a ton of other things beyond just space tourism, and right now, satellites, communications, broadband, internet are really the types of industries within space that are driving change and advancement of revenues for the overall space industry. liz: well yeah, let's be clear though, virgin galactic has a nas

that as well, but here it's very rich billionaires whe you are talking what jeff basis is doing or certainly richard bransonbout that? >> well, i just look at it as kind of a one of the progress i that has gone on since we started flying into space. the public, which is less informed i guess, they will ten to look at this and i've seen some references to it, they tal about it as like civilians bein able to go in space and what have you, it's a totally different mission and people need to appreciate that because i can only tell you that our launch, our total launch just t get into orbit was just a few seconds under ten minutes and w were pretty busy on it and managing and looking licking edits and monitoring all of the systems in that spacecraft just to keep people alive. that's not quite what goes on today. you're along for the right it looks like to me. >> obviously, this is the way space travel might go into the future to open it up to more americans. of all different stripes across the world, but it's a high entry , two of the paying customers reportedly paid $250,000 each for the ride. what did you thin

shatner, i understand that you had turned down a flight on richard branson's virgin galactic, and now here you are going up on blue origin, jeffell, it's not that i don't love each of those billionaires, but -- [laughter] it's because the opportunity presented itself. you know, jeff bezos' vision is really remarkable, practical one. let's build the industries that pollute on earth, let's build in connection with space. it's not so esoteric as flying to mars, colonizing mars a year and a half, six months there, six months back. this is let's build now and start right now to protect our planet. >> you know, you've heard this more than you with care to, mr. shatner, that you, at 90 years young, will be the oldest human being, at least up to this point, to travel into space. and when you're pepperedded with that question, you had said over the weekend i'm bloody captain kirk. and yet all they're focusing on -- including this questioner -- is your age. what do you think of that? >> yeah. well, the only thing about age that has application to this particular vehicle is getting in and out of the seat with any kind of arthritis. so un

. >> reporter: sir richard branson, jeff bezos and elon musk have said they hope sending more to thehatner wants to protect most. what made you so emotional up there? >> the absolute startling, unexpected difference between the darkness of space and the blue of earth. and it's -- i would love to be able to describe it in three minutes. you can't. just know that out there lies coldness, yes, the mystery of space, but right here lies sustenance and life, nurturing. >> reporter: and such a powerful message right there and i said to the other crew members, you went to space. not only did you go to space but you actually went with captain kirk himself. they said, listen, i can't think of a better ambassador for the future of humanity than captain kirk. michael? >> yeah, gio, see how emotional they were when they got back. you can feel that on the ground just watching them go up. you know, what's next for blue origin? how -- do we know how much each ticket costs? >> reporter: all right, so blue origin said they have one more flight this year and a couple more in 2022. but that ticket price

release, release >> reporter: a very different trip than the rocket rides that richard branson's virgin galactic and jeffactually going to space for about three minutes at a cost of nearly half a million dollars. the balloon trip with eight passengers and two crew members will last up to 12 hours, starting at $50,000 per seat already 250 people have preordered tickets >> no space suits, it's a shirt sleeve environment, so just like you're in an airplane. you'll be comfortable. no space suits or special equipment are required. >> reporter: the vision, to launch passengers from seven sites -- the grand canyon, australia's great barrier reef, the saharan desert, the amazon rain forest, norway's aurora borialis, the egyptian pyramids and the great wall of china. nearly 3,000 balloons a year that can only be used once to do that, the company is making the strongest balloons possible this tape here, this is critical, right? this is what holds the balloon and gives it strength. >> this is what holds the balloon and gives it strength but it's also what carries all of the weight from the balloon. >> reporter: you

ahead of jeff bezos's blue origin and richard branson's virgin galactic.rying to revolutionize urban transportation. neural link working on linking machines to your brain. imagine what that could do for prosthetics. is a popular personality not just because he's rich but because he is the brash successful man of the future, colorful, entertaining. what a contrast with mark zuckerberg. senators warren and sanders, socialists don't like anyone with more money than them. a few years ago i characterized him as a showman a bit like the character harold hill in the music man, the movie. i got side of his minute relation of cryptos with his weird tweet but today those look like minor-league criticisms which you can't argue with success especially since he is not harming anyone. elon musk is king of the hill. third hour of varney just getting started. steve hilton with us this friday morning. elon musk, richest guy in the world ditched california for texas. >> how disaster loosely this state is going in the wrong direction because i agree about elon musk and for m

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 his lunch time for william shatner's is what 20 minutes away. andy, it's been a long time coming for shot. and i have to say, can you tell us about what's going to happen and you know how this is all going to unfold? well, we're about a half an hour away from launch. everything looks good. that should have been in launch on tuesday that was delayed because of high winds. but look, captain kirk is going to the final frontier. that's all anyone cares about. on this particular 2nd man mission of the new shepherd rocket. this, i think will mean so much to so many people around the world. remembe

jeff bezos, i believe, very aware of the criticism that's coming his way. he believes, along with elon musk and richard bransonhey are doing something that is ultimately going to better all of human kind. it's just these very wealthy patrons they believe have to pave the way. >> one measure of the fact that this is a business, as we approach t minus two minutes to launch is all the various ways to observe it. this is a drone shot around -- this is a company that wants to show it as it happens. what's happening right now, i think you can see it there in this shot, is the tower connection to the capsule, to the rocket, is being pulled back. these are all part of the rocket's built-in checks and steps pre launch, again as we approach just about 1:30 here. commander hadfield, what's happening inside that capsule right now as these final checks go into place? >> all eight eyeballs have -- this is for real now. this is no longer talking about it. this is opening night. so everybody is watching that and recognizing, wow, i've got one minute left on earth. hopefully everything is about to go well. >> let's listen in t

jeff bezos and blue origin. does that hurt richard branson and virgin galactic out there with captain kirk going up.made a good point. he is independently wealthy. he doesn't need the money from jeff bezos. he made a ton in priceline. stuart: did priceline ads years years ago. susan: he didn't ask for salary. he asked for equity. that is how you build wealth. stuart: if the stock goes up you're doing well. thanks, susan. >>> now this, today new york begins enforcing vaccine mandates for all teachers and staff in city schools. we're learned that 18,000 shots were given to new york teachers just ahead of the deadline. lydia hu joins us. you're talking to parents and teachers what are they telling you? reporter: good morning, stuart. the parents and teachers stay the mandates undermine quality of education for their children. they gathered outside this morning of this school on staten island to voice their disapproval. >> now that we have teachers that are gone. we have substitute teachers that are teaching our children when we had relationships with our teachers that were here. it is very sad and it i

richard branson, as you know, has a rocket plane. —— mr bizos. there is an advertised price, $a50,000 for a similar kind of light. jeffo wheel out our star trek clich 5 now, he boldly went. to wheel out our star trek clich s now, he boldly went.— to wheel out our star trek clich s now, he boldly went. space, been there, now, he boldly went. space, been there. done _ now, he boldly went. space, been there, done that. _ now, he boldly went. space, been there, done that. jonathan, i now, he boldly went. space, been there, done that. jonathan, the i there, done that. jonathan, the moment, thank you so much. and sophie long joins us now from texas. did you watch it to take and land? we did. quite an emotional experience of standing here on the ground and watching a rocket shoot out, knowing you have four human beings on there and one of them is 90—year—old william shatner and you can see from where i am standing here, the rocket dislodged from the capsule and then you know they are going up to space. you watch the rocket chasse come down and then it is a few moments later that you can see people start crying out, i can see

jeff bezos confirming the 90-year-old will be on-board the october 12th flight. snl poking fun at the billionaire space race by the way between elon musk, bezos and richard bransonflight on a mid life crisis of cosmic proportions. >> whoa, whoa, we hit a space station. >> oops. don't care. cheryl: mid life crisis? what? star trek's captain's journey will last 11 minutes as he soars toward the boundary of space. the internet was right. he's going. we talked about it last week. maria: you're right. all right, cheryl, thank you so much. meanwhile, tensions continue to rise between taiwan and china. china sending 56 war planes into taiwan's air defense zone monday alone, the largest incursion ever and the numbers have been rising and rising. it brings the total number of chinese war planes up to 149 into taiwan since october 1st. now taiwan's president is warning that if the country falls to china it would trigger catastrophic consequences for peace in asia. joining me now is fox news senior strategic analyst general jack keane. thank you for being here. always a pleasure to talk with you. your reaction to what's taking place here? >> well, certainly this is the lar