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It was very important to me that this was a very fair, independent process.
I wanted no say in anyone who was selected for this.
I wanted it to be as objective as it possibly could be.
And that's where we came up with our mission pillars.
We wanted a crew member to represent leadership, a crew member to represent
hope, we wanted a crew member to represent
generosity, and a crew member to represent prosperity.
You know, for our mission pillar of generosity, that
was all going to be a fundraising campaign for St. Jude.
And the way you participate is you've got to make a donation to an incredible cause.
And that donation would be an entry into a
sweepstakes to have a spot on Inspiration4.
And this also plays right into the Super Bowl commercial.
I wanted to energize a lot of people and hopefully inspire a lot of people as to,
you know, certainly what we can accomplish in
space, but also what we can do here on Earth.
Taylor, you should know I really love you because
I put on real clothes for you on a Sunday.
Um, loving it.
All right, I'm going to taste test.
I love them.
Thank you.
I was so excited for Super Bowl Sunday because I was dying to tell people.
This is the biggest news of my whole life.
You were with Michael last night.
With Michael is a loose term, but yes.
I had some of my friends over and I'm like, watch the commercials.
And so then they were like, oh, well, you're going to be on The Bachelorette.
It's not The Bachelor.
Or is it The Bachelor?
Because I know the new season starts soon or
they're starting to film for the new season.
Like soon.
You'll see, you'll realize.
And immediately after I said that, the Inspiration4 commercial came on.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
This fall, Inspiration4 launches as the first online commercial.
All civilian mission to space.
You going to space?
No, you're not.
I am.
Are you really?
Yeah.
Oh, you're really.
You are.
Excuse me?
Yes.
I'm really confused.
Wait, you really are?
I'm literally going out of space.
You're going to freaking space?
Yeah.
Look, I can't cuss on camera, but what the F?
That's what's up.
That's what's up.
Woo!
I'm going to space.
Coming to space.
We're getting some news from SpaceX.
Plans for the world's first all-civilian mission to space.
People who are joining us late on Sunday night might
have seen the commercial that ran during the Super Bowl.
Anyone who contributes any amount to the St. Jude fundraising
effort can be considered for the third astronaut seat.
My name is Chris Zambroski.
And I am 41 years old.
I've got two beautiful daughters and married and living out in western Washington.
I first heard of this mission from the Super Bowl lad.
It showed up on the TV.
It's like, well, that's kind of an interesting opportunity.
And, oh, it's benefiting St. Jude.
Just kind of pull out my phone.
Oh, I'll just go to the website real quick.
Take a look.
Oh, okay, I'll donate to St. Jude.
Growing up, I was in math competitions and went to a science and math high school.
So I've always been a math major.
I've always been someone who loves space and rockets and science.
But I never thought that I'd actually have a chance to go to space.
Putting your name into the lottery, it's like, okay, yeah, that's fine.
You're helping St. Jude and you're raising money for them.
Whatever, Chris.
Okay, you're never going to space, but here you go.
Enjoy your dream.
There was a morning where Chris was downstairs with the girls.
And I think it was one of those mornings where I was able to sleep in a little bit.
And he had left his phone on the nightstand and it started ringing.
And I looked at it and I saw Inspiration4.
And I thought it was a telemarketer.
So I ignored it.
And then they called back.
And it was Inspiration4 again.
And I thought, this telemarketer is really persistent.
Oh, okay.
Well, I remember donating.
Yeah.
Who are you?
And what kind of extended warranty are you trying to sell me?
You know, I made up some shit about it.
We need to do some administrative coordination.
We need to get on the Zoom.
Just made some shit up and got him on the Zoom.
Kid had called the phone.
He's the mission director for this.
Hey, there we are.
Jared's obviously doing all the talking.
And he pretty much just let him know, hey, dude, you're the guy.
Jared just kind of does his nod in his very Jared way.
He's like, you know, we'd like to invite you
to be a part of the crew of Inspiration4.
You are now going to represent that mission spirit.
You are the spirit of generosity on Inspiration4.
For a minute there, I thought the Zoom froze
because Chris didn't flinch, didn't say anything.
That was the extent of my reaction at the time.
He was just in shock.
It's like, wow, this is really exciting.
But wait a minute.
I have a family.
How am I going to make this all work?
Everybody had a different reaction when I told
them that their spot was selected for Inspiration4.
Chris, first thing is I'm going to talk to my family about this.
No matter what, I'm a father first.
That was his reaction to it, really, is talk to my family and see what they think.
But I really appreciate this opportunity.
There you go.
I mean, I went upstairs after the phone call, though, and told my wife,
I think I'm going to ride a rocket.
I think it's about how I phrased it.
And she just, what?
I could see his face and he was almost buzzing.
And he was just excited and kind of holding it back a little bit.
And we all kind of looked up at him.
And our oldest said, what?
You're going into outer space?
And Chris started smiling.
My eyes started watering.
And he looked at me and he said, I see you.
And we talked.
There's a lot of risk.
What happens if something goes wrong?
What is that going to do to her?
What's it going to do to our daughters?
Did I know that my husband signed up for it?
Did I know that my husband signed up for a contest to win a trip into outer space?
No.
Am I surprised that my husband entered a contest to win a trip into outer space?
No, I'm not.
No.
Chris and I were both living in Great Falls, Montana, fresh out of college.
I was working at my first teaching position.
Chris was stationed with the Air Force.
We were at a friend's barbecue.
And I had walked out to the back deck.
And he was wearing this space camp T-shirt tucked into his jeans.
And he walked up to me and the first thing that he said
to me was, did you watch the space shuttle launch today?
And I think my first reaction was, nerd alert.
Not only is he funny, but he has that ability
to laugh at himself, which is really endearing.
And he's thoughtful.
He's caring.
And he's my favorite person to spend time with.
With this mission, there are times when you feel so proud and excited.
And there are times when you feel anxious and nervous.
All I really am thinking about and wanting is,
you know, come back to Earth safe and sound.
And then I'll party.
Right from the start of Inspiration4, right, knowing that this was going to be
the first civilian mission this month, Thank you so much.
It was just very apparent to me that any time you have a first like this,
that it comes with significance and responsibility.
And that's why we established our mission pillars.
The last was going to be our mission pillar of prosperity.
And I wanted that to be an entrepreneur selection process from the start.
We wanted a crew member to share a business idea with the world.
I just know how difficult it is to take a business from a concept to a reality.
And if we can incorporate that into this and find our next
great inspiring entrepreneur, then we should do that too.
My name is Cyan Proctor.
I am 51 years old and I am from Phoenix, Arizona.
I don't have a TV and I did not watch the Super Bowl.
But then halfway through the contest, I saw a
friend post their video for the prosperity seat.
And I went, there's another seat?
So you had to show your entrepreneurial spirit
and do a 2 minute and 20 second Twitter video.
I'm Gretchen Green.
My name is Brian K.
Smith.
I'm Andrew Rader.
Like many people, I've always wanted to be an astronaut.
I build my own rockets.
I watch every launch I can.
I've always dreamt of taking an entire orchestra to space.
And now I might actually have the chance.
An opportunity to create imagery from orbit would
quite literally take my photography to new heights.
I want to bring the mystery and wonder of space to the everyday person while
simultaneously supporting an amazing cause.
And I'm ready to be an inspiration for all.
Live long and prosper.
And so I think it was 50 takes.
And finally I got one that I was like, OK, I'm done.
I'm going to post this.
And I just told my story.
Hi, everyone.
I'm Dr. Sian Proctor.
And I'm a geoscientist, explorer and analog astronaut.
And I have dreamed about going to space my entire life.
I was born in March of 1970.
And I was born on Guam.
And the reason why we were on Guam is because my dad was working at the NASA
tracking station during the Apollo missions.
And I was born eight and a half months after Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon.
So I literally am a Apollo 11 moon celebration baby.
Dad was responsible for helping to track the spacecraft as it moved around the Earth.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin went on a tour of the
tracking stations to thank everybody that worked there.
And so Neil Armstrong wrote this really nice
note that said, To Ed, thanks for all the help.
Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11.
I was a feisty, independent kid early on.
My passions were anything outdoors and airplanes.
In high school, you know how you put up pictures in your locker?
I had a photo of an F-16 pilot inverted in my locker.
I can't shoot this son of a bitch.
Let's see if we can have a little fun with him.
When I saw Top Gun for the first time, it blew my mind.
I was like, oh, this is exactly what I want to do.
But it was all about men.
I just thought that I couldn't be a part of that world.
I had zero female fighter pilots as role models.
And I had always seen being an astronaut.
Through the military fighter pilot lens.
And so I thought that I couldn't ever be an astronaut.
But then, years later, somebody emailed me and said, NASA's
looking for astronauts you should apply with the link.
I was 38 years old when that announcement came
out that they were looking for astronauts.
There was about 3,500 that applied for that selection round.
And out of that, they chose nine.
And I'm like, why would they choose me?
And then I realized when I looked at the requirements that I met, most of the
minimum requirements for being an astronaut.
And I ended up being a finalist, which meant
that I got down to literally a yes-no phone call.
The yes-no phone call comes in.
They just said, sorry, we didn't select you.
Please try again.
And, of course, you're like, oh, you know,
because you're that close to this childhood dream.
And it just slipped away.
When she got the news that she wasn't selected as a NASA
astronaut, you kind of see the lights go down, right?
Because you don't think this opportunity is going to ever happen again.
You know, it was a devastating blow.
They put out a call for astronauts not too long ago, just before COVID.
And people asked me.
Are you going to fly?
And I'm like, now I'm, you know, 50.
And I just don't think that's the route for me if I'm going to go to space.
But I think that one day commercial space will work.
When I submitted my video for Inspiration4, I
didn't build myself as a scientist and a geologist.
I built myself as a poet and an artist.
I opened up my shop where I sell my art.
My entrepreneurial spirit lies in the fact that I combine space art with poetry.
Now, one of the rules for the contest was that
you had to be able to go viral a little bit.
The more likes and attention it got, the greater the
chances are it would make it to the final selection process.
And so I rallied Twitter.
And in three days, I had 70,000 views on my video.
I got an email on Saturday that said, Hey, we've got some administrative stuff
for you that we need to check on.
Can you jump on a Zoom really quickly on Sunday?
Hey, Dr. Proctor.
Hi.
Hi, Jared.
Hi, kid.
Hi.
And I'm like, Jared's on here.
The good news is that it's not really part of the
vetting process because you've already gone through that.
You're selected.
So you are representing Inspiration4 in the Prosperity seat.
So you're going to go to space.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
I have dreamt of this my entire life.
You know, life-changing.
Life-changing Zoom call.
Oh, my goodness.
Thank you.
It would have been easy for Jared to just take three friends and do this in secret.
But as John F.
Kennedy said about the moon, he said, we don't do these things because they're easy.
We do them because they're hard.
It's much more than just him.
It's much more than his crew.
He's doing this for a purpose and for a benefit for future missions.
I'm excited.
I'm excited.
I'm so excited.
This is cool.
This is awesome.
Yeah.
We're a crew.
We
know not all of this is going to be fun.
Some of this is going to be uncomfortable.
But we all are singularly focused on making sure
that we are successful as a team and a crew together.
The whole
crew is, for a process that was about as random as
you could get, the stars have always aligned with us.
I mean, we have a fantastic crew.
Every one of them brings amazing qualities to the mission.
As space becomes an increasingly egalitarian place where you can fly and I
can fly and my kids can fly, I think we will look
back and say, who were the first people who did this?
Oh, yes, that was inspiration for...
I
saw you photobombing me.
Hi, I love your dress.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Oh, look at everybody coming in.
I'm so excited.
Okay, let them in.
Go ahead.
Admit all.
Okay.
Hi, everyone.
Turn your cameras on so I can see everybody.
Okay.
So, I just wanted to say...
I'm going to get emotional, but you know my dream of always wanting to go to space.
I wanted to let you know that I got selected as the inspiration for...
I dropped my pet and I'm going to space.
I... Oh, my God, I cannot believe this.
I know, Langley.
I'm in Florida right now with the inspiration for crew.
Okay, so I'm going to bring my crew members over.
Jared, Haley, Chris.
Let's all get in here.
So, this is the four of us are going to space.
We're going to space together.
You know, there have been three black female
American astronauts who have made it to space.
I will be number four.
So, it's a small number.
I feel very fortunate to help advance women of color
in space and particularly African American females.
We have been overlooked.
And we have not been supported as much as we could be.
And I would like to see that change.
My dad would always tell me about how scientists
stand on the shoulders of the scientists before them.
And that's exactly what we want.
We want to inspire people to imagine that, yeah, it's me in this seat right now,
but it can be you in the future.
I don't want to cry, but, you know, I wish mom and dad... I wish they were here.
I know dad would be, you know, so proud.
Yeah.
And so, to carry that, that legacy that dad started so long ago on Guam.
So, Langley, I'm going to need that Neil Armstrong
autograph to take to space with me right there.
Yeah.
Mom, I'm so glad it's over.
I'm glad they know.
I'm so glad that they know, right?
Yes.
I'm just so happy.
That's so powerful.
I'm so happy to be here with all of you.
We're really happy to be here.
Yeah, congratulations.
Great for the movie.
I know.
We're the crew.
We're the crew.
I-4.
Wait, one, two, three.
I-4.
I-4.
Okay, now let's eat.
Okay.
All right.
Inspiration4 will be launching from the Kennedy Space Center.
It's located on Cape Canaveral on the east coast of Florida.
The Kennedy Space Center is really the home to manned space flight.
If you think about people standing on the beach and
looking up in awe, all of that is Kennedy Space Center.
It is a vast complex.
It has a military segment.
It has a civilian segment.
It has a range of launch pads.
There is the Vehicle Assembly Building there,
one of the largest buildings in the world.
Blue Origin has its own complex there.
SpaceX has its own complex there.
It is an entire mini megalopolis built around a space industry.
The great thing about the Kennedy Space Center is that it has this historical
element to it, which is it's where Apollo launched
from, and it's where the space shot came from.
And the place where Inspiration 4 will launch is
the same pad that we launched people to the moon.
If all goes well, Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins are to lift
off from Pad 39A out there on the voyage man always has dreamed about.
Kennedy Space Center is home to so much success, but it's also home to some very
tragic moments in manned space flight history.
Lessons learned in blood are something near and dear to our heart.
Space flight is inherently risky, right?
It is unforgiving of errors.
You're dealing with high-energy propellants, liquid oxygen and rocket fuel.
Things that in other cases could be used as a bomb.
The risks are endless.
Risk is not zero.
You're riding a rocket at 17,500 miles an hour around the Earth.
In that kind of environment, there's risks associated with it.
Let's look at where things have gone wrong in the past.
We lost a space shuttle on ascent, so on the way up,
and we lost a space shuttle on the way down, on reentry.
When you're on launch, you've got an awful lot of thrust that's coming out the other
end of that rocket, which is coming from an awful lot of propellant that's
basically going through a controlled explosion.
I called my sister-in-law, who's also an aerospace engineer.
I told her that I was invited to go to space, and I said, I'm gonna do it.
And she was like, I would never do it.
You're basically on top of a bomb.
The biggest danger is you could die.
I mean, something could happen with a spacecraft
that literally causes you to lose your life.
That's the biggest danger.
But it's not about crazy risk-taking.
This is about going on a journey that has all of the
safety precautions that you can think of built into it.
None of the crew members have expressed any, like, direct fear.
But I do think that there might be concerns in other ways, like for family.
Like, hey, I know the risk I'm taking.
I'm not entirely sure.
You know, my family might not necessarily know fully their risks that they're taking.
The families of the crew members have a significant
yet different burden than those actually going up.
And that's what they live with day in and day out.
The crew are the ones at risk.
The families are the ones who now bear the consequence of that risk.
I'm not thinking about the launch.
I'm not thinking about her being in space.
I'm thinking about today.
I think, similarly to when she was going through treatment, one day at a time,
I know the people behind the scenes, and I'm very confident.
But of course, you know, as a mother, I have those worries.
What are your biggest fears right now?
I try not to go there.
But of course, I do at times.
Of course, something happening.
I'm the generation that was watching the Challenger.
And I...
Krista McAuliffe's parents' face, you know, pops into my head.
The star of this mission, New Hampshire schoolteacher Krista McAuliffe.
The schoolteacher who was the first civilian person to be aboard a space shuttle.
There are a lot of students back at Concord High
School who would love to have that opportunity.
A crowd of some 500 spectators, including Krista McAuliffe's parents,
Grace and Edward Corrigan, watched proudly in tears of joy.
Liftoff of the 25th space shuttle mission and it has cleared the tower.
We have a report from the flight dynamics officer that the vehicle has exploded.
At 1140 a.m.
this morning, space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the
space shuttle Challenger approximately a minute and a
half after launch from here at the Kennedy Space Center.
When we talk about risks, you know, you're in a mission.
The two times where you're the most worried is in launch and then reentry is
the other part where you worry about that because
now you're intentionally falling back to the Earth.
Once you're in orbit, you've got to then get rid of the energy.
Your entry is like a meteor.
You're like a blazing meteor coming in.
And so it's hard not to get vaporized.
There's meteors hitting Earth all the time, but they mostly get vaporized.
We have booster ignition and liftoff of space shuttle Columbia.
As Columbia blasted into the last frontier this morning,
Racine native Laurel Clark was along for the ride.
My name is Jonathan B.
Clark.
My wife, Laurel, we were both active-duty Navy officers.
We'd met in Navy dive school.
And she had this kind of unique, just down-to-Earth nature.
Laurel was a wonderful mom.
When she was applying to NASA, she had been pregnant the first time.
And her attitude was, hey, if I can't be an astronaut, I have as great a job as a mom.
And when she got picked up by NASA, it was a shock to both of us.
I was at NASA for eight years as a shuttle crew flight surgeon.
To my knowledge, I'm probably the only person that was a family member that
worked the specific mission that their wife was on.
Oh, Dad's got on his ESA tie.
Looks nice.
I had the ability to communicate with her through
what are called private family conferences.
Oh.
Oh, God, that should be in the eye.
Yeah, good job, Mom.
Now, in retrospect, that's the last conversations we had.
All right, honey, bye.
We were lucky to have a landing that was going to be at a perfect time of day.
Houston, comm check.
Columbia, Houston... Communication was getting very spotty.
It was very obvious it was breaking up.
Houston, we see your tire pressure messages, and we did not copy your last.
So, copy your tire pressure alarm and did not copy your last.
I'm like, that's not right.
This indicates to me that something is catastrophically amiss.
Communications with Columbia were lost at about 8 a.m.
Central Time.
Within minutes, all the family escorts, cell phones are going off.
And then, very soon thereafter, the head of the astronaut office,
he comes in and he goes, we lost the crew.
The space shuttle at some point after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere,
traveling at 12,500 miles per hour seemed to break up, according to the pictures.
So reminiscent of that fateful day, January 28th, 1986, when we saw something
similar upon the takeoff of the space shuttle
Challenger when it exploded shortly after takeoff.
Somebody had the insight to take the kids away.
And it was Barbara Morgan, who was an astronaut.
She was Krista McAuliffe's backup.
She was there at Krista's demise.
And she knows what to do.
It's almost like there was some, you know,
divine intervention that she would be there.
It was almost like...
she's there for a reason.
And she gets the kids away.
And literally within 10 minutes, the kids are playing and being kids.
And the adults are the ones that are, you know,
sobbing and just horribly overcome with grief.
And Barbara said to me, John, the kids will get us through this.
They were the strong ones.
And as much as it is painful to all of us, you look at it and you go, life will go on.
You have to, you know, deal with this.
So my role is now, make sure Ian is good.
Make sure the other family members are good.
Take care of the team.
The tribe.
And we'll get through this.
It's weird, like, now that we're getting closer
to it, you start dreaming about the stuff.
Like, good and bad, right?
Like, you start thinking about, like, what
could happen and the risks that are involved.
I'm trying to be excited about it.
I'm trying to be positive for him and show him how proud I am.
But you have your good days and you have your bad days.
I think being the partner, there is this expectation that we are proud,
that we are grateful, and we are happy to be here.
And the reality is that, yes, we are all of those
things, but we also are anxious and we also are nervous.
This whole adventure and experience has been a roller coaster ride.
I know Jared's always been this way.
He's always tried to do his thing and I've
always kind of let him do that and be himself.
I don't want him to change because of me or, like, because we have a family.
As hard as it is for me sometimes, like, I know he has to do it for himself.
It's his life, too, right?
So...
Sitting in heaven would be looking down and saying, you go for it.
The higher we go, the farther we can see.
And it's a species imperative for us to do this.
Your spouse or your loved one's journey is now your journey.
And their dream is your dream.
To be a part of inspiring the next generation to pass that torch and
recognize that whatever cost it takes, that's your dream.
You go for it.
There may be costs to that journey.
Is it worth it?
You bet it is.
Crew 2 launched in the spring of this year, and
we brought the Inspiration4 crew to the launch.
Crew 2 was the last time we flew humans to space
from SpaceX in the Falcon and in the Dragon.
And Inspiration4 will be the next time.
This is awesome.
Look at that.
Guys, look out the window to the east.
You'll see our pad.
And if you look at the very top, you can see the crew arm sticking out
there as well, which will be your ingress and egress to and from the capsule.
Look at that.
I am here with my crew to watch Crew 2 lift off to the International Space Station.
It makes me so proud that we can be a part of the American history and legacy.
Inspiration4 are going to be the next humans to
lift off from Kennedy Space Center in five months.
Once you get off to the pad, you'll be there around two hours.
T minus 45 minutes.
The arm we call the launch escape system.
So that's the safety net, like your eject button if something were to happen.
We recognize the risk.
You know, we have families.
But nobody said like, hey, I'm really nervous about this
because they're all very confident in what SpaceX has built.
We're coming down here.
What we have in the center lane right now is our
Crew 2 booster, a reused booster after a flight use.
That's freaking awesome.
We also have here on the other side, in the hangar here, the life leader booster.
So this is nine flights on a booster.
And so you can start to see the patina, if you will.
Getting to see the rocket, you know, little things that kind
of go through your mind, like that rocket's really tall.
It just made it so real.
This is the exact path you guys are going to take.
You're going to come out of the cars, get in the elevators, go up one floor.
Now you're at the 265.
Welcome to the top of the Space Coast.
Every human being who walked on the moon and
climbed into a rocket here on this launch pad.
You know, almost every single shuttle mission came from this launch pad.
This phone behind you is a shuttle-era phone.
It's used by most astronauts to come in and actually make the last phone call they
want to make before they actually hit the space.
So we put time in the timeline to allow you guys to use that phone.
I think a lot of us had a pretty significant moment on Pad 39A.
So many hero astronauts before us had used that phone to
make, you know, what could have been their last phone call.
Are you okay?
I'm just practicing breathing.
You can hold my hand if you want.
Just try not to break it.
This crew arm is clearly suspended above thin air.
Oh my gosh.
So cool.
On the other side of this rocket, the head
stanchion is a 270 foot drop, just so you guys know.
But normally, Dragon would be right here.
We have one tradition that we do in the crew arm that you guys will certainly be
part of, and that's before you get into the
vehicle, we will sign the edge of the white room.
When we're here watching Crew 2 launch and knowing that we're coming up next,
like, you know, how fortunate we are to
really be standing on the shoulders of giants.
It's getting real.
This is awesome.
Whoa.
Yeah, the capsule will be right here.
Yep.
The landing facility, you see that round?
Being up on top of that with Pad 39A, this is where America leaves to go to space.
This is like an amazing dream coming true.
Pretty cool.
What a view.
Gosh.
You're higher than most everybody else in Florida right now.
That's not hard.
It's not hard.
That's not hard.
It's not hard.
Yeah.
That's cool.
Oh, Chris.
Wow.
What an adventure.
What?
This is just...
Right in front of Gary.
Chris, do you want to get in for a picture?
In a minute.
Okay.
I'm happy for you.
I'm happy for you.
I'm happy for you.
Yeah.
I
don't think I'll think about the worldly impact that this mission is going to have
until Chris is back on the ground.
And it's one of those late nights where we're sitting and we're chatting with a
glass of wine that I think it'll start to sink in and we'll start to realize,
wow, this is what you did and this is what you're a part of.
And this is bigger than the both of us.
I think there's a lot of things that people enjoy that have risk in life.
When we talk about space and why do it,
there's a lot of reasons why we should do that.
We are a speck in the grand scheme of things when you think about the universe.
And we know so little about it.
The questions that human beings have been asking themselves since the beginning of
time are probably answered in the worlds beyond our own.
I think it's in our nature to want to go and seek out some of those answers and
we're going to find them through an accessible means to space.
And our mission is one step in that journey.
I think we're very close to the end of what space has given us.
I think we're very close to the end of our planet.
I think we're going to find a way to set this world on a new road.
from space to space
Like an uncharted territory I must seem greatly intrigued.
I just remember just excitement and the reality is setting in.
I'm going to actually experience what that feels like.
I'm next, let's do this.
Three, two, one, zero.
You have to be willing.
You have to be willing.
You have to be well trained to fly a SpaceX spacecraft.
You have to be able to tolerate g-forces, a centrifuge, and overcome your fear.
Our mission to space is not guaranteed.
There are a number of ways that any individual or the mission could be shut down.
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