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What's a better way to die than to blow up in a rocket? I really wanted to go to
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space. I actually signed up initially around 2006, the Blue Origin. On the actual flight day, it started off as a
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kind of a pretty smooth elevator ride, but then it just gets faster and faster to the point where we're doing 3,400 km/
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hour. And at that point, you know, the adrenaline is really kicking in. And then there's a really swift transition
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when you get stage separation where the booster drops off the capsule. Essentially, you move into a zero
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gravity environment really quickly within a few seconds. and looking at the magnificent views out the window. I
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guess the main emotional element really was seeing the Earth [music] from space.
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You know, you see a photo of space, you see the blackness, but to actually be outside the Earth's atmosphere and to
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see the context travel through the solar system or through the galaxy, I think about it every day. It was just the most
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epic, intense 10 minutes of my