Speaker 1: And here the astronauts come in the front
Speaker 2: Seat. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: There. You see Jeff Bezos in the foreground Oliver, Damon stepping into the R Crew number seven, Kevin spoke there on the right [00:00:30] As well as Wally funk. What a moment for her At the age of 82, she will become the, this astronauts who have ever flown into space,
Speaker 2: Right? While you're off.
Speaker 1: And there she is loading into the Rivian While it was part of the mercury 13 program. [00:01:00] Back in the 1960s, the program to train women to go to space that ultimately was canceled. But now it is her moment. Today is an incredible day for her. [00:01:30] All right, now we're going be waiting for mission control to get a, a go for astronaut load out to the pad. That's when they will, the Rivian will start heading out towards the pad. They're actually gonna pass right behind me here. I'm certainly gonna [00:02:00] give them a wave. They then will pass mission control, get some last minute love from, uh, from our team there as well as their families. And then they will head down the road to space, to the launchpad and we go for load in. There they go. Everybody. What a moment? You can probably hear our team already losing it down here. We are super excited [00:02:30] and there they are High fives from everybody. What an incredible moment. They're coming over here, just behind my right shoulder. A moment we've been waiting for here at blues and so much hard work has led to this moment.
Speaker 1: How exciting Wally funk, the Bezos [00:03:00] brothers, Oliver, Damon, our four crew members are heading out to the launchpad. There they go. See you guys. Oh my gosh. They're in for the flight of a lifetime and just couple yards to my left here. That is mission control. And here they go, passing by mission control there. You see Jeff Bezos waving to the team [00:03:30] And they're gonna hang a left there As they head down the road to space. Now, while we watch them travel down that road to space, they've got just a couple of moments. It's a long two mile road there. We've got a couple of moments. Why don't we meet aviation [00:04:00] icon, Wally funk.
