bring in nbc's morgan chesky and van horn in texas and all astronaut panel of experts with us, mike massimino flew two missions, four space walks and the first person to tweet from space. he's senior adviser for space programs at the intrepid museum. becky whitson, first female commander of the international space station, holds the record among american astronauts for spending the most time in space, 665 days and in the fall of next year she'll be the mission commander for the spais ex commission to the iss and leo melvin served as nasa education and the only person drafted into the nfl to have flown into space. good morning to all of you rock stars. morgan, you were there on site. they are astronauts we'll hear from them in about an hour and what a morning it's been for them. >> understanding, hallie, 20 miles away from the launch site the middle of the west texas desert and it was so incredibly fitting to see this take place here on the frontier as bezos traded it for another, crossing that line officially entering outer space and three to four minutes of weightlessness in this flight, tha

that's next, right and mike massimino and our own morgan brennan bill nelson. we're close. on side of your screen, that is oliver daemen. . first paying passengers onboard. the launch of this flight will mark the first time we have actually seen a u.s. company carry a paying passenger, and a u.s. company carry a paying passenger to the edge of space he, of course, took that seat after the anonymous winner of that $28 million auction rescheduled to a later flight, but, guys, it looks like we're looking at video of the base of the rocket here. looks like the launch time may have been paused i'm going to check in on that right now and get right back to you on that. looks like we're at hold t minus 15. >> we see that on our screen here, too, morgan. obviously, these things can move watching these issues. >> reporter: absolutely. >> 62 miles up, morgan, and then they detach the capsule at the top that you see, and then, what is it? about three minutes of weightlessness they can expect, but the whole trip about 11 minutes? >> reporter: whole trip, completely autonomous, 11 minute

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mike massimino is a professor with columbia university thank you for joining us tell us what's goingcouple of days. what jeff bezos is experiencing, how you prepare for something like this, how much preparation is even required >> thanks for having me, andrew. good to see you as well, joe thanks for having me i think as far as preparation at this point, i think what they're doing is mainly mentally thinking about what they're going to do with the flight. vehicle is highly automated. they've got 15 successful flights of this vehicle, including three successful abort tests so anything that happens, whether it's an emergency or normal operations can be handled autonomously more it's going to be concentrating on what they're going to do during the flight. what does he want to accomplish as far as taking the views in, experiencing zero gravity. trying to get the memories in context in his head for all four of the crew members they can tell us about it they're the first ones to do this in my mind part of the responsibility is to let us know what it's like i think that's what they're concen

mike massimino, how are you doing, mike, good day to you.big shuttle launch, boom, boom, boom. what do you think about what branson did? >> well, i think first of all dana and bill great to be with you and thanks so much for having me. i think it's pretty cool. much different than what i did as an astronaut or my friends are doing in the space station training for years and going up with specific duties and so on. this is more of the experience of it but also research can be done and exploration as well. even for the short flights that richard branson and jeff bezos will go taking now. i think it's pretty cool. the more people that can get up there the better. there is different paths to get there. brand-new one has opened up. >> dana: branson tweeted i dreamt about this moment since a child. going to space is more magical than i ever imagined. your hopes and dreams as a kid. kids today their dreams, there will be a lot more opportunities for them to work in space. are you excited about that for them? >> yeah, absolutely. when i was a little

mike massimino, last week, talking about how a guy like you feels about people paying big bucks to getctice years but leaving that aside, what do you think of this particular mission and how it might differ from bezos? >> thanks for the great introduction. you are great italian-american as well. thanks for having me. it differs in a few ways. bezos is going up or traditionally, going up in a rocketship, getting out of the atmosphere. he will get above 100 kilometers, the international standard of where space begins and he will come back down similar to what alan shepard did, the name of the spacecraft is new shepard, the same profile alan shepard went through as the first american in space. neil: the corpsman line i've heard billionaires arguing over, technically 62 miles up and in branson's case might be just below it. bezos is arguing we will be above it. we will be more in space than branson. >> it will be higher. on hubble we were 100 miles higher than the space station but astronauts on the space station are considered to be in space as we were at hubble. the common line is 52 mil

before we go, mike massimino has been in space twice, great guy.m in a very simple way. he will help us understand the why as to bezos and musk and branson and all these people paying a lot of money to go to space. check it out, he's fantastic. spotify, itunes, fox news radio, we've got it. speech he will listen and have a great weekend. thanks for watching. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> bill: bye-bye. >> dagen: this fox news alert, a brazen shooting in our nation's capital. this is "the faulkner focus," i am dagen mcdowell in for harris. chaos in washington as gunfire erupted in a crowded tourist area near both the white house and the capital, suspects are seen taking off on foot, two people are shot and injured, witnesses say they heard as

anyway, i'm just taking it all in it's just unreal >> joining us now, former nasa nasa astronaut, mike massiminot. if they don't pick you, who are they going to pick >> thanks. >> thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> how high -- what are the -- i'm interested in the differences between bezos and branson in advantages, disadvantages. and i'm wondering what are the constraints on the branson model, which looks pretty attractive you go up, it goes into free fall and then you launch from there and then you land on a runway could it go above the harmon line or whatever it's called if people want to do -- are there constraints on how high branson's ship can fly >> well, they did get above 50 miles to get into the american standard for where space is, where the carmen line is so that's why they were given astronaut wings yesterday. if they want to get higher, they need a little more juice you get a little more power to get higher i think they'll probably end up doing that eventually. what's interesting about the branson model, as you mentioned, they take off and land on a runway so it cou