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you just saw laura shepard churchley hug michael strahan. the daughter of the first american to ever go into space just went to space with an nfl hall of famer and broadcaster. this is how far we have come in our journey in space exploration, travel, innovation, that she and strahan can end up on the same ship, same capsule going to space now coming from these two different backgrounds, two different journeys, that now it's making it possible for someone like strahan and others to go through a week of training and still be able to explore, still be able to go to space. laura shepard churchley with that background and that history. she is the daughter, yes, of alan shepard, but she has been very engaged in the space community and space education for decades in her life. it is really, really incredible. gio especially, i know you follow this closely and robach as well, this is a friend of ours. but that moment, to see how far we've come, to see that that moment is possible now that these two could end up in space together. >> and t.j., i'll gi

abc's michael strahan and laura shepard churchley, the daughter of alan shepard, the first american inhis era, you know, 60 years ago was so different from today. i mean, i still can't believe that nobody was driving that space ship. >> reporter: do you approve of the original shepherd on the new shepard? >> yes. >> reporter: you do. >> , i'm very proud of it. > reporter: blue origin hasn't announced hair next mission but they have already sold out seats on several upcoming flights. omar villafranca, cbs news, van horn, texas. >> o'keefe: still ahead on the "cbs weekend news," kansas says farewell to a favorite son, bob dole. with directv stream i can get live tv and on demand anywhere. look, serena williams... matrix... serena... matrix... serena... matrix... ♪ ♪ ♪ get your tv together with the best of live and on demand. introducing directv stream. for the power of a deep clean in minutes try mr. clean clean freak with the best of live and on demand. unlike bleach sprays, clean freak begins deep cleaning on contact with 3x the cleaning power to break down tough messes in seconds so,

and joining us now is one of my fellow crew members, laura shepard churchley whose father was alan shepardw shepard. laura, thank you so much for joining us this morning. i'm going to ask you a question everybody asks me, are you nervous about going into space? >> no, i'm not nervous about going into space. i'm just kind of a little nervous here. [ laughter ] >> okay, since you're not nervous you must be excited. what are you most excited about? >> i'm excited to kind of be following in my father's footsteps for starters and i'm excited just to go up higher into space to see what it all looks like. i've been looking at the stars with my father forever and now i'm just going to get -- we're all going to get really close and it's just going to be thrilling. >> it is going to be thrilling. you mentioned your father. your dad was the first american in space in 1961. he got to walk on the moon in 1971 and he famously hit a few golf balls. so what do you think he would say about what you're about to do and what advice would he give you? >> well, first off, i would have to tell him what i was goi

laura shepard churchley, the daughter of the first american in space, alan shepard.up with michael after his once-in-lifetime flight. >> just see the curvature, the atmosphere, blue, the earth, just it was too short. >> astronaut strahan going to the moon next? >> if they invite me i'm going to the moon, and i'm going to walk and talk, moon walk. >> reporter: independent got to tell you, i've seen a lot of space launches but there's something very different about seeing your own friend go up there. just 609 humans have now been to space. >> that was fun to watch. love the moon walk as well. thank you. when we come back, answers to the fedex package mystery. hundreds thrown into an alabama ravine. we look at where they wound up. yardwork... teamwork... long walks.... that's how you du more, with dupixent, which helps prevent asthma attacks. dupixent is not for sudden breathing problems. it's an add-on-treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma that can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as two weeks. and can reduce, or even eliminat

. >> reporter: joining michael, laura shepard churchley, the daughter of alan shepard, the first americanand cameron bess, the first parent-child duo to launch together. the launch had been delayed because of strong winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere. blue origin watching that closely. >> parachutes come out right around 10,000 feet. that is completely at the mercy of the winds at this point. so if those rippeds are really strong at 10,000 feet, it can actually blow our capsule outside of our landing area. >> reporter: michael, saying he's ready to blast off. >> excited about tomorrow, going to be a lot of fun. >> reporter: david, blue origin is feeling confident about the weather tomorrow morning. our coverage begins here on abc at 9:30 eastern. david? >> thank you, gio. michael's got this. we'll be watching. i'm david muir. good night. rightly pointing out that there were no injuries, but i have been briefed by the chief of police and i have absolute confidence in the anti-up police department as well as responding visual aid assistance from brentwood and oakley will have the s

laura shepard—churchley took off on—board a commercial aircraft which was named after her dad — and ownedcers in london yesterday afternoon. officers were called to reports of a man with a firearm entering a bank and a bookmakers, before stopping a suspect vehicle a short time later. london's metropolitan police say the incident is not being treated as terrorism. finally, long queues formed here in england as limited—edition t—shirts made by the world famous street artist banksy went on sale. the bristol—born artist announced on friday night that the shirts would go on sale at locations in the city. he said they had been created to show support for the four people about to go on trial accused of pulling down the statue of slave trader edward colston. you're watching bbc news. hello, hello, everyone. i hope you're doing all right. for many of us, it's a much milder day across the uk. we are importing mild air from the south, but coupled with that, quite a lot of cloud around. it's not going to be a gorgeous, kind of sunny, mild day. we do also have some rain around. let's have a look at th

laura shepard churchley , who's 7a , was one of six people aboard the blue origin commercial spacecraft it reached an altitude ofjust over a hundred kilometres before descending back to earth. the spacecraft is named after alan shepard who made his flight in 1961. finally long queues formed here in england as limited—edition t—shirts made by the street artist banksy went on sale. the bristol—born artist announced on friday night that the shirts would go on sale at locations in the city. he said they had been created to show support for the four people about to go on trial accused of pulling down the statue of slave trader edward colston. the shirts quickly began appearing for resale online, with one seller asking for nine thousand pounds — that's11,9a5 us dollars. in fact, that is probably a bargain. now it's time for a look at the weather. the second half of the weekend is going to remain very unsettled. you will notice in england and wales it is going to be very mild indeed. further north there will be outbreaks of rain. tying in this area of low pressure. keeping a watch because it i

a big hug for our founder, jeff bezos, followed by laura shepard churchley. dylan taylor, lane bess. cameron bess. and last, but certainly not least, evan dick. welcome back the original six. >> oh, the electricity of the excitement. i feel it. you absolutely can sense it right now. you know, i was reading, colonel hadfield, this is one of the most remarkable year for human spates flight. this year has seen more flights with people aboard than any year since 1985. that is when we saw a flurry of activity, and then of course the "challenger" explosion lapped a year later. of course i was jokingly asking boris if we could get on one of these flights. when is it going to be before regular folk will actually have access to private space flight like this? >> it's still expensive. it's new and complicated, but way cheaper than it was even ten years ago. you used to have to be a trillion nair to fly in space. an entire nation, the soviet union, the united states, but you're right, this past year, we have gone from virtually no paying attention to, now, multiple diff

laura shepard—churchley, took off on—board a commercial aircraft which was named after her dad — and many of us, it's a much milder day across the uk. we are importing mild air from the south, but coupled with that, quite a lot of cloud around. it's not going to be a gorgeous, kind of sunny, mild day. we do also have some rain around. let's have a look at the big picture. first off, then, this is the main feature of our weather today. really, we have an area of low pressure here and this weather front will bring clouds and some rain in the low pressure, bringing some stormy conditions to northern parts later. but it's also the vehicle which is helping draw up this much milder air from the south. and i think many of us will feel that as we head through the day. that is the weather front perched across northern ireland into the north of england, then moving northwards into scotland as we head through the day. further south, areas that saw quite a lot of rain in places yesterday should be drier, a bit of brightness as well. some mist and fog lingering for a time across parts of wales an

laura shepard—churchley took off on board a commercial aircraft — named after her dad. captain kirk himself! star trek�*s william shatner, the oldest person to make it into space, followed in october. this third flight is blue origin's first full capacity one with six people on board which descended safely back to earth. the 74—year—old's verdict? awesome! awesome, she says. and following in her father's footsteps? i thought about daddy coming down, and gosh, he didn't even get to enjoy anything i enjoyed. he was working. he was all business. right, he had to do it himself. i went on for the ride. have you seen how small his capsule was? he wasn't doing somersaults, he didn't have your windows. the only way he knew he was weightless was his straps were flying. right, because he was strapped in. underlining just how remarkably space travel has changed since 1961. how it will evolve in 2022 and beyond for the next generation, well, that's anyone's guess. mark lobel, bbc news. this is where we say goodbye to ben — he's off to read the news on andrew marr. owain is here in t

michael sharing a hug with fellow crew member laura shepard churchley the daughter of the first americanrd. amy catching up with after his once-in-a-lifetime flight you see the curvature. atmosphere blue the earth it was too short astronauts ray going to the moon. knight if they invite me and i'm gonna walk. moonwalk for one and i've got to tell you i've seen a lot of space launches, but there's something very different about seeing your own friend. go up there just 609 people have now been to space. geo benitez abc news, van horn, texas and on top of it all he wants to go back. we'll still head on abc 7 news at 11:00. it sounded next to impossible trading a bobby pin to ultimately get a house. we have quite an update on a story we first told you about over the summer of last year. i didn't have health insurance, not because i didn't want it. i worried it was too expensive and i was having a hard time paying our other bills. but now, for the first time in our lives, i can do both. covered california makes health insurance easier in every way. with financial help for millions of us and fr

. >> it's so incredible that laura shepard churchley is onboard. first american in space back in 1961. we had a chance to chat with her and stray himself asked her what she might hear from her dad if he was still around. >> i would say that blue origin was going to put me in a spacecraft and they're going to put the spacecraft on top of a rocket. they're going to blast me up into space and i'll come back to earth safely. that's exactly what daddy said to us. so he would be sitting there on the sofa listening to me. he would stand up, come over to me, give me a big hug and a kiss. and he would say "go for it, laura." >> that was wonderful to hear her excitement. gio, we just hit a very critical moment in this countdown. we are still t minus six minutes, but go/no go. >> this is the very exciting moment where they poll the room at mission control and they actually say, okay, is it a go or is it no go and they said go. so right now at t minus six minutes or just under six minutes we are a go for launch. it gets very exciting. the next five minutes, am

. >>> now we're joined by michael and fellow crew members, laura shepard churchley, lane and cameronee you guys. michael, how is your preflight routine different than your pregame routine? >> actually i'll probably sleep better for the preflight routine, george, because, you know, it's different in sports than football. you see me in the training center with my fellow astronauts. we have been training so much, going through all the different protocols, all the different safety features that you feel very confident and we all feel very confident and can perform any function that we may need if called upon and just all the different things getting in and out of your seat, all these things i never knew you needed to know. you just think you get in, strap up, go up, come down but there's so much you learn here and it's just been fantastic and puts you at ease. i know we're all excited and bonded as a team here in van horn, texas. >> ahhhh, that bond. i love it. laura, let me ask you, of course, we know alan shepard your beloved father, his forever place in history. laura, what do you thi

is the third crewed-flight for "new shepard" it's named "new shepard" after alan shepard, whose daughter laura churchleyn this flight into space. she's making a suborbital journey. she, of course, went on to land on the moon. i had the opportunity to speak to the astronauts last night. they all say they're not nervous. they're just credibly, midwest and the south, i was worried this might not happen today. thank for your report. >>> i want to bring in someone who was once scheduled to be what michael strahan is about to become, the first american journalist in space. miles o'brien was working towards flying on the space shuttle. in february 2003 "columbia" was torn apart. miles, how does it feel as you watch about. >> more power to them s i look love to be strapping in, and i look forward to that someday. he's in the right place at the right moment, anchor every the right show. i suppose we could have definitional discussion. he's the gma host for sure, quite a celebrated football player. you know, there's a lot of people who spent a lot of time learning the space program in great intimate detail who wo