10, 9, we have ignition sequence start.
Engines on, 5, 4, 3, 2, all engines-
- Human reaction for the first time we do
everything is always amazement.
The whole planet stops and
everybody gazes upward.
It was like that when John Glenn flew
the first moon shots,
they got everybody's attention.
Apollo 11 was amazing,
Apollo 12 some people watched.
And from Apollo 14, 15-17 I bet you nobody
can remember who they even were that flew.
- (Inaudible) - I think what happens
is the public has an initial
peak in interest in anything
that has to do with space exploration.
But then it seems to get
old hat very quickly.
And then they're no longer as
excited about it, which is unfortunate.
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I've been told that when you
see the Earth floating as a ball in space
with the atmosphere being literally a thin
blue line.
You really get an appreciation for
how much you've got to take care of
the planet.
And you don't get that when you're
down here.
But when you step back and
you see the earth in perspective.
And you see how tiny it is and
how fragile it is.
You start to think more globally, and
in a more humane way.
- One of the things that the Apollo era
did, especially with that moonrise photo,
was it showed people on Earth a globe
without borders on it.
That was a really new idea.
Right after that photo came back,
we had the clean air act.
We had the clean water act,
we had doctors without boarders.
What would the earth have been like now if
we didn't have that insight.
We're at a time now when a little over 500
people have actually gone to space and
can tell you about it.
I want to get to a time when 50,000 people
have gone to space.
It's gonna be something that we all see
as possible.
- There are a lot of millennials that
are inspired and feel like the commercial
space issue really is their Apollo moment.
This is their opportunity to build this
sort of next generation of space travel.
I think within our lifetime we'll see
humanity put settlements on the moon.
We'll absolutely see humans touch down on
Mars in our lifetime.
There's no doubt in my mind.
You'll see a very robust sort of low Earth
orbit economy that's happening with human
space travel.
And that's something I'm looking forward
to helping build.
(Music) - People call
World View a perspective company.
We're putting the earth in a new
perspective.
We're developing a capsule that will take
space to risk to the edge of space.
You'll get in a capsule and
slowly ascend with 5 other passengers and
2 crew up to 100 thousand feet.
Where you'll stay for a few hours seeing
the curvature of the Earth and the thin
atmosphere and the blackness of space.
It's meant
to be a very accessable experience.
- When the astronaut core was
first announced back in the 1960s.
The entire country became electric.
You could dream about potentially
being one of the initial seven astronauts.
If I were to go up in a World View flight,
the flight itself would be 10 times longer
than the first sub orbital flight.
It's just a wonderful gift that World View
and other companies, I think, are giving
to us to be able to have that experience.
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- The concern that some people express is,
if everybody can go to space
it'll become sort of cliché.
It won't be that meaningful.
I think that the experience of
going to space and seeing the earth
in that context is a phenomenally
important part of everyone's education.
When we make space more and
more accessible to the general public.
More and more people get this idea that we
all live on one relatively small planet in
the huge sea of space.
And in so doing, change how we
see our place in the universe.
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- When I looked out the window
of the International Space Station and
I saw our planet.
And, in some way,
being physically detached from the only
world I ever had known made me feel deeply
interconnected with everyone on it.
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I think a lot of our perceived differences
blur into insignificance.